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136 Quotes about Freedom : Unleashing the Spirit of Liberty

Embracing the beauty of freedom, we find inspiration and strength in these quotes. They remind us that freedom is not merely a privilege, but a powerful force that shapes our lives. Join us in celebrating the essence of liberation and the boundless potential it offers.

  1. Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Freedom is not for the weak. Tony Calderone
  3. Slavery is the next thing to hell. Harriet Tubman
  4. When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. Ralph Ellison
  5. On the other side of fear lies freedom. Unknown
  6. Freedom is the power to say no. James Clear
  7. Freedom begins between the ears. Edward Abbey
  8. Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it. Albert Einstein
  9. Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
  10. No borders, just horizons – only freedom. Amelia Earhart
  11. There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse. David Hume
  12. However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. Alexander Hamilton
  13. I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi
  15. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza
  16. Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Epictetus (wikipedia.org)
  17. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. Adlai Stevenson
  18. A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. Milton Friedman
  19. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. Immanuel Kant
  20. Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? Francis Wright
  21. Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol
  22. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. Dick Cheney
  23. How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Soren Kierkegaard
  24. He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. Robert Musil
  25. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. Henry David Thoreau
  27. Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. Simone Weil
  28. This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

  1. No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass
  2. Most will give up an acre of freedom for a closet of security. Dr. Idel Dreimer
  3. Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries? Amelia Earhart
  4. You can do anything. You can go anywhere. Christopher McCandless (Into The Wild movie)
  5. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin
  6. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan
  7. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech. Albert Einstein
  8. I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman
  9. This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. Euripides
  10. We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children’s children who may perchance be really free. Henry David Thoreau
  11. The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. Henry David Thoreau
  12. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan
  13. When one door is closed. Don’t you know what many more are open. Bob Marley
  14. Let freedom never perish in your hands. Joseph Addison
  15. Power is duty; freedom is responsibility. Marie Dubsky
  16. Freedom is submission to truth. Robert Breedlove
  17. If you cannot be free be as free as you can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  18. He moves fastest who moves alone. Milton Friedman
  19. The best freedom is being yourself. Jim Morrison
  20. Liberty is the first condition of growth. Swami Vivekananda
  21. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Phil Plait
  22. Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils. General John Stark
  23. Freedom is never free. It requires risk taking. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  24. When you come to the point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom will begin. Unknown
  25. Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose and to commit ourselves to our goals and values. Paulo Coelho
  26. There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Charles Kingsley
  27. What if the greater good is protecting our freedoms. Jemma Palmer
  28. I value freedom above anything else. Freedom to do what I want, freedom from not doing what I don’t want to do, and freedom from my own reactions and emotions… things that may disturb my peace. Naval Ravikant
  29. Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  30. Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake, of searching and experimenting, of saying no to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. Ignazio Silone
  31. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda
  32. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau
  33. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte
  34. Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is: -not having to go to meetings -not having to spend time with jerks -not being locked into status games -not feeling like you have to say “yes” -not worrying about others claiming your time and energy. Real wealth is about freedom. James Clear
  35. You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. Henry Rollins
  36. The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. Leon Blum
  37. Nothing matters and that’s a good thing as it sets you free. Naval Ravikant
  38. I believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal, and they’re endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. Barack Obama
  39. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Frederick Douglass
  40. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Kahlil Gibran
  41. Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. Fannie Lou Hamer
  42. You’ll be free or die! Harriet Tubman
  43. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. Osho
  44. The function of freedom is to free someone else. Toni Morrison
  45. The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. Bob Marley
  46. It is your attachment that creates hell. Rajneesh
  47. Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the one thing that will set you free. Unknown
  48. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  49. Without freedom there can be no morality. Carl Jung
  50. Freedom is dearer than bread or joy. Jessie E. Sampter
  51. Freedom is a fast car and an open road. Naval Ravikant
  52. The lure of flying is the lure of beauty. Amelia Earhart
  53. After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you. Malcolm X
  54. Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. John Lennon
  55. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed — else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  56. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Martin Luther King Jr
  57. That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Henry David Thoreau
  58. Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. Albert Einstein
  59. We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. Che Guevara
  60. The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. John F. Kennedy

 

  1. You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. John Adams (Founding Fathers)
  2. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
  3. A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. Mark Twain
  4. As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly. Amelia Earhart
  5. The highest sign of inner freedom is when you no longer want to change the present moment. Maxime Lagacé
  6. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. Nelson Mandela
  9. A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan
  11. What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero
  12. My liberty depends on you being free, too. Barack Obama
  13. I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks
  14. They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. Benjamin Franklin
  15. No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent. Abraham Lincoln
  16. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be. Thomas Jefferson
  17. It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  18. If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X
  19. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. Frederick Douglass
  20. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau
  21. Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. H. L. Mencken
  22. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  23. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre
  24. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus
  25. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  26. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. Rajneesh
  27. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. Bob Marley
  28. We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. Errico Malatesta
  29. Everything can be taken from a man but… the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Victor Frankl
  30. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry
  31. True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. Rajneesh
  32. 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
  33. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker, if somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear, and how to behave, you’re not a free person. Naval Ravikant
  34. Liberty: One of imagination’s most precious possessions. Ambrose Bierce
  35. He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  36. Stand for what’s right. Make your life beautiful. Make your life meaningful. Maxime Lagacé
  37. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom. Malcolm X
  38. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington
  39. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Aung San Suu Kyi
  40. No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. Buddha
  41. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein
  42. I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  43. Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand
  44. For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson
  45. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus
  46. Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  47. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf
  48. Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche

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