7,738 Quotes About Freedom

I will chart my own territory. My own course. I will walk on that path that has never been walked before because I am not afraid of the unknown.

Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are the first foundation of liberty. There is no lasting safeguard for liberty in anything but one’s own strength.

Happiness is free, but you have to pay for everything else.

One sign of a troubled democracy is that it has taken “freedom” and “license” to mean the same thing.

The greatest jail break in all of history occurred on Easter morning. Therefore, we must remember that whatever our prisons might be and however impenetrable they might appear, your jail break is just a prayer away.

You can't be saying you are fighting for the truth and you fighting for justice , if you are biased. You will be only fighting those you don't like.

If we wait for history to present us with freedom and other precious gifts, we risk waiting in vain. History is us -- and there is no alternative but to shoulder the burden of what we so passionately desire and heart it out of the depths.

I remember how surprised I was to discover that Isaiah Berlin's famous essay on the two concepts of liberty, which once inspired many Polish intellectuals, myself included, was nothing more than a collection of platitudes and falsehoods that further prevented rather than encouraged any serious reflection on freedom.

In defiance of Berlin, I believe the concept of freedom should open us up to an abundance of weighty philosophical questions about the world and our place within it, rather than discourage us out of fear that we put our freedom at risk by answering these questions.