Freedom Quotes

1. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

2. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

3. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~ Unknown

4. For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~ Thomas Paine

6. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

7. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~ Moshe Dayan

8. There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~ Charles Kingsley

9. Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~ Unknown

10. Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~ Jeffrey Borenstein

11. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~ William Faulkner

12. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin

13. We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~ Felix Frankfurter

14. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

15. Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

16. The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~ Daniel Webster

17. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~ Albert Camus

18. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~ D.H. Lawrence

19. I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~ Unknown

20. Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~ Nietzsche

21. Freedom is never free. ~ Unknown