Came Quote by Tecumseh

“Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed”

— Steven Erikson

“Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.”

— Terry Goodkind

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

— Edward Abbey

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom

— Anonymous

“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies liberty is…

— Charles Fourier

“What does it mean to be free—when freedom itself feels like foreign terrain?”

— Sasa Ljumic

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

— Thomas Paine

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

— Pearl S. Buck

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even…

— Paulo Coelho

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The…

— William Cowper