“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“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
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.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
John Milton
5 quotes“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”