Freedom Quotes
The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.
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"I like to remain like a mist, never to be caught."John Keats
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."John Milton
"Licence they mean when they cry Liberty."John Milton
"Discipline in youth is the foundation of freedom in age."William Wordsworth
"All I require is the freedom to think and to speak and to act."Lord Byron
"There is a pleasure in the pathless wood, a rapture on the lonely shore."Lord Byron
"The great object is to be free and to make others free."Lord Byron
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Freedom lies in being bold."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."John Milton
"Liberty is the birthright of all thinking creatures."John Milton
"Freedom without responsibility is merely another form of slavery."John Milton
"The human imagination does not like to be bounded."John Keats
"Why should a man be ashamed of his natural frame?"John Keats
"The mind must be free to wander in its own paths."John Keats
"I believe in freedom above all things."Lord Byron
"I am my own master and will remain so."Lord Byron
"To be free is to accept the burden of freedom."Lord Byron
"Freedom is the gift which makes all other gifts possible."Dante Alighieri
"Freedom without responsibility is tyranny of the self."Dante Alighieri
"What is freedom? It is the power to act; and we are but poorly free if we lack the vigor to exert our power."William Wordsworth
"To be unshackled by the chains of convention is to be truly free."William Wordsworth
"And ther he was as free as a bird."Geoffrey Chaucer
"No man is truly free until he knows himself."Geoffrey Chaucer
"The mind is the greatest realm of freedom."Geoffrey Chaucer
"There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."John Milton
"License they mean when they cry liberty."John Milton
"None can love freedom heartily but good men."John Milton
"Reason is but choosing; to choose aright is to be free."John Milton