“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
More from Nelson Mandela on Freedom
“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.”
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
“Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.”
“When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.”
“Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.”
“There is no such thing as part freedom.”
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.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
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.”
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.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
John Milton
5 quotes“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”