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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin · Pennsylvania Assembly reply to the Governor, 1755
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela · Long Walk to Freedom, 1994
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
George Washington · Letter, 1788
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to William Stephens Smith, 1787
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson · Declaration of Independence, 1776
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin · 1755
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 45
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 76
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
