Freedom Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“They must learn that freedom will not keep them warm.”

— Lauren Oliver

“On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Freedom is only mourned by those who no longer have it. Those who’ve never known it don’t have that luxury.”

— Pippa DaCosta

“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.”

— Alice Sebold

“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.”

— Madeline Miller

“That’s what our minds do. They protect us. They bury those memories that would cripple us, so that we can live with ourselves.”

— Robert Dugoni

“There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.”

— Anonymous

“The weight of memories, they are difficult to escape.”

— Daniel Varona

“they won't know what freedom is anymore. But then again, few people do.”

— Morgan Rice

“In the hospitality of war we left them their dead to remember us by.”

— Archilochus

“Those who have gone before us, now rest peacefully in their graves as their permanent home.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita