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Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (5 October 1938)
Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
Winston Churchill1874–1965“The Coalmining Situation”, Speech to the House of Commons (October 13, 1943)
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
Winston Churchill1874–1965United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
- Honor
- Justice
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)
Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
- Debate
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Colette1873–1954Freedom (1908)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
CCConstitutional ConventionThe Constitution of the United States (September 17, 1787), PreambleIn context
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, Coolidge, The Minerva Group (2001), p. 159
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
- Liberty
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of the Law (1904)
- Morality
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of the Law (1904), III:60
- Laws
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran1750–1817Often credited to Thomas Jefferson
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran1750–1817Speech upon the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin (10 July 1790)
- Liberty
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
Roald Dahl1916–1990“Goodbye school” in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
- Writing