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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)
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell1903–1950
- Liberty
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I Have a Dream (1963)
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context
- Justice
- Liberty
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
- Business
- Economics
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to James Madison (2 March 1788)
- Liberty
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon1769–1821
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
ALA. J. Liebling1904–1963Often credited to H. L. Mencken
- Journalism
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington1732–1799
- Liberty
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- Slavery
- Virtue
I think it’s insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It’s an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you’ve experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
- Race
- Slavery
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost1874–1963
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004