Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. – Ronald Reagan

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. – Patrick Henry

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. – Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. – Walter Cronkite

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. – Pope John Paul II

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. – Friedrich August von Hayek

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. – Moshe Dayan

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall

Freedom is never given; it is won. – A. Philip Randolph

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. – Charles Evans Hughes

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus