"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

Liberty can be obtained, it cannot be regained.

Povos livres, lembrem-se desta máxima: pode-se adquirir a liberdade, mas recuperá-la jamais.

Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. Rollo May