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John Updike on Freedom

“To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.”

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...”

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...”

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.”

Ronald Reagan

5 quotes

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”

Jean-Paul Sartre

5 quotes

“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”

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