Quotes about freedom
567 quotes from 261 people
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 224–25 (1953)Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force.
Angela Merkelborn 1954Remarks by German Chancellor Angela Merkel before a joint session of Congress on November 04, 2009.An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay1777–1852Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818)The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., p. 114What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Essay in This I Believe: 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live
without mirrors is to live without the self.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), “Marrying the Hangman”- Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Dissenting in Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
Gene Wolfe1931–2019The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996), Volume 3, Ch. 4
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)” preface, Anthologie de la Nouvelle Poésie Nègre et Malgache (1948)
David Graeber1961–2020Direct Action: An Ethnography (Oakland: AK Press: 2009), p. 203
Ludwig von Mises1881–1973The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 10: The Concept of a Perfect System of Government
Arundhati Royborn 1961An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire (2005), p. 48
Ai Weiweiborn 1957“Artist Ai Weiwei: China Crushes Dissenting Voices,” in: Fox News, June 11, 2012.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Instructions to Boston’s Representatives (May 1764), also quoted in Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan (1997), by William M. Fowler Jr., p. 51