Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes on Liberty & Freedom (7 Quotes)

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives - in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.