Freedom Value Quotes

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will loose its freedom.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

Twenty years ago, I was part of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the vote and maybe, in certain places, lack of police harassment. You can live anywhere you want and do anything you want - if you have the means.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.