This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

— Goethe

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

— James Madison

You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody

— Bob Dylan

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;
for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

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There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.

— Margaret Atwood

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War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

— 1984

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

— Freya Madeline Stark

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There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

— Marya Hornbacher

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire