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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
- Justice
- Liberty
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Third State of the Union Address
- War & Peace
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Elective Affinities (1809), Bk. II, Ch. 5
Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
- History
You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get your freedom; then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
Malcolm X1925–1965Advice to the Youth of Mississippi (December 31, 1964)
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)
Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Lafayette (1821)
- Slavery
Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious.
James Madison1751–1836Vices of the Political System of the United States (April 1787), Papers 9:350-51
- Slavery
Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
James Madison1751–1836Madison’s notes (25 August 1787)
- Slavery
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or Part I, Swenson Translation p. 19
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand1905–1982Anthem (1937)
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)
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Red Association” (1870)
- Economics