“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
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Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
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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.”
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.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”