“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
More from D.H. Lawrence on Freedom
“Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.”
“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”
Others on Freedom
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”