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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice⁠—their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address in Pittsburgh (9 October 1956)
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address at the Columbia University National Bicentennial Dinner, New York City. (31 May 1954)
- Patriotism
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969D-Day Order (1944)
- War & Peace
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- Liberty
- War & Peace
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (27 June 1839)
- Poetry
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1877)
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1877)
- Knowledge
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
Erasmus1466–1536Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377
- Liberty
I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Artistic Freedom”
- Art
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don’t understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
Niall Fergusonborn 1964Interview, ‘Westerners don’t understand how vulnerable freedom is’, The Guardian (20 February 2011)
Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4, p. 97