“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
Plato
Civic DutyGovernment
Freedom Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FREEDOM
Freedom Quotes
Read the best freedom quotes from Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Swami Vivekananda, Shakespeare, the Bible and more, with timeless words on liberty and independence.
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
Thucydides
PowerJustice
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
Cicero
LawGovernment
“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Cicero
ResistanceHistory
“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
Tacitus
TyrannyWar
“But who will guard the guards themselves?”
Juvenal
AccountabilityPower
“Treat your inferior as you would wish your superior to treat you.”
Seneca
RespectDignity
“The more prohibitive enactments there are in the kingdom, the poorer will be the people.”
Lao Tzu
GovernmentLimited Government
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.”
Henry David Thoreau
IndependenceIndividuality
“We are selfish men; oh! raise us up, return to us again; and give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.”
William Wordsworth
VirtuePoetry
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
PatriotismAccountability
“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.”
Oscar Wilde
ArtCreativity
“You have among you many a purchased slave, which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, you use in abject and in slavish parts, because you bought them.”
William Shakespeare
HypocrisyHuman Rights
“How now? moody? What is't thou canst demand? My liberty.”
William Shakespeare
LongingRelease
“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace.”
William Shakespeare
IndependenceDefiance
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.”
The Bible (Exodus 3:7)
OppressionCompassion
“Rise up, and get you forth from among my people.”
The Bible (Exodus 12:31)
ExodusRelease
“And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 5:15)
RemembranceGratitude
“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains.”
The Bible (Psalm 68:6)
FamilyRelease
“To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death.”
The Bible (Psalm 102:20)
MercyPrisoners
“For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.”
The Bible (Psalm 69:33)
CompassionPrisoners
“And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”
The Bible (Isaiah 10:27)
Breaking FreeFaith
“Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved.”
The Bible (Philemon 1:16)
DignityBrotherhood
“That we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear.”
The Bible (Luke 1:74)
DeliveranceFearlessness
“But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth.”
The Bible (Acts 5:19)
MiraclesRelease