Quotes about freedom

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Written in a tax dispute with the colony's proprietors — the context is narrower than the slogan.

…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

A cage went in search of a bird.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The only liberty I mean is a liberty connected with order.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Ich bin ein Berliner.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Man is condemned to be free.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Let all things flow freely, without violence.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by.

In the poem both roads are "really about the same"; the speaker only claims the difference later. Frost meant it partly as a joke.