"Freedom" Quotes

       This is a collection of famous quotations on the subject of "Liberty" recorded throughout history. I will be updating regularly and if anybody has anything to add here, please email me, thank you.

 "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."                                                                                                Abraham Lincoln  

  "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that  unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Martin Luther King, Jr.                       

 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10,1964                                                  

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.Martin Luther King, Jr.

George Washington"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it." George Washington

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.." Thomas Jefferson 

"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom."  Thomas Paine

Albert Einstein"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." --Albert Einstein

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

José Martí, en Brooklyn."Patria es algo más que opresión, algo más que pedazos de terreno sin libertad y sin vida, algo más que derecho de posesión a la fuerza." José Martí

José Martí, en Brooklyn. "Me parece que me matan un hijo cada vez que privan a un hombre del derecho de pensar." José Martí

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