“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”
More from Ronald Reagan on Freedom
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
“If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.”
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
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.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
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.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”