Top 70 Freedom Quotes

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Freedom is the ability to change or act without someone else constraining you from doing so. With that in mind, check out the top freedom quotes.

#70 – 60. Freedom Quotes

70. “The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.” Eric Hoffer

69. “Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”—Epictetus

68. Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand

67. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero

65. “When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” Eric Hoffer

64. I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong… but to feel strong. Christopher McCandless

63. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” —Mahatma Gandhi

62. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. Benjamin Franklin

61. Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential. Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner

#59 – 50. Freedom Quotes

59. 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

58. If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X

57. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. Thich Nhat Hanh

56. Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it. Albert Einstein

55. 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

54. Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler

53. “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” Charles Dickens

52. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” —Charlotte Bronte

51. “Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.” Albert Einstein

50. “Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” Samuel Adams

#49 – 40. Freedom Quotes

49. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan

48. We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. Errico Malatesta

47. Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end. Jiddu Krishnamurti

46. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” —Herbert Hoover

45. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry

44. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” —Kahlil Gibran

43. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf

42. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre

41. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Aung San Suu Kyi

40. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

#39 – 30. Freedom Quotes

39. You can be a scared slave or you can be a brave human being. Maxime Lagacé

38. Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost

37. What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. Thomas Jefferson

36. For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus

34. Liberty: One of imagination’s most precious possessions. Ambrose Bierce

33. 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

32. “Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.” —Maya Angelou

31. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington

30. 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

#29 – 20. Freedom Quotes

29. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein

28. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. Frederick Douglass

27. Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens. Jiddu Krishnamurti

26. All the Men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them. Leonard Cohen

25. 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

24. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin

23. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” —Daniel J. Boorstin

22. No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. Buddha

21. The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom. Henry David Thoreau

20. 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

#19 – 10. Freedom Quotes

19. Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche

17. “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” —Margaret Atwood from The Handmaid’s Tale

16. “Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” —Louis D. Brandeis

15. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

14. “We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.” Epictetus

13. “No man is free who is not master of himself.” Epictetus

12. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. Bob Marley

11. He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10. Its 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

#9 – 1. Freedom Quotes

9. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom. Malcolm X

8. Freedom – to walk free and own no superior. Walt Whitman

7. “This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

6. I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

5. “The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.” Edmund Burke

4. “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” —Wendell Willkie

3. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

2. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” —Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own

1.Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. Jeffrey Borenstein

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