“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
More from Eisenhower on Freedom
“If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.”
“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
5 quotes“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”
Ronald Reagan
5 quotes“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”