Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right; Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
—John Milton
He who is brave is free.
—Seneca
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
—Aristotle
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
—George Washington
All good things are wild and free.
—Henry David Thoreau
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
—Oscar Wilde
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
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 Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
—Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
—Thomas Jefferson
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
—Georg Hegel
But I need solitude–which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Søren Kierkegaard
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Through discipline comes freedom.
—Aristotle
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When Christ died, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery, until, by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, reconciled by Christ’s death, by whom we have now rec’d atonement.
—John Flavel
We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.
—John Owen
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
—Aristotle
The Law is Reason free from Passion.
—Aristotle
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
—George Washington
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing is impossible to him that believeth: You can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth you. Do valiantly; and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.
—John Wesley
In spite of the difficulties we encounter when we pray, prayer is a powerful and effective way to get right, stay right & stay free from error.
—AW Tozer