“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
More from Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Freedom
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)”
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”
“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
“Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.”
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
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.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
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.”
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”