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)If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.
Simone Weil1909–1943Human Personality (1943), p. 69- Simone Weil1909–1943Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 142 (1972 edition)
Ai Weiweiborn 1957“Artist Ai Weiwei: China Crushes Dissenting Voices,” in: Fox News, June 11, 2012.If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:38 p.m. August 23, 2009)God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West1892–1983“The Tosh Horse,” The New Statesman (1925)To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that’s what I call success.
William Wilberforce1759–1833Journal entry (28 October 1787), in The Life of William Wilberforce (1838) by his sons, vol. 1
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” (1992), Ch. 7: Work, §3: Personal Power, p. 190 (p. 165 in some editions)The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
