205 Freedom Quotes To Set You Free From Shackles of Bondage

Last Updated on June 3, 2024 by Team Lifelords

 

Inspiring Freedom Quotes By Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan, And Others

 

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It’s not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”

– Ronald Reagan

Best Freedom Quotes

Freedom Quotes By Ronald Reagan, Benjamin Franklin & Others: Freedom is the ability to express yourself the way you want to. It is a feeling that is felt from within. Freedom is the right to live the life you choose without any restrictions or limitations. It means being able to do whatever you want without having to answer to anyone.

It also means having the right to speak your mind, follow your dreams, and make your own choices without fear or prejudice. Without freedom, life has no value. But why is freedom important in our life? Because Individual freedom gives you the privilege to express your thoughts and speak your mind.

Freedom gives you the opportunity to take risks, make mistakes, learn from them, and improve your skills. Freedom leads to increased productivity, creativity, and high quality of life. However, freedom is not just the choice to live one’s life according to their own wishes.

It has a deeper and greater meaning. Freedom is much more than just a right, it’s a responsibility of doing what you think is good, not only for you but even for society. It is a state when one realizes their duties and starts respecting others’ freedom.

To celebrate this Independence Day we are going to share some inspiring quotes about freedom that will help you experience the divine feeling of liberty.

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I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who resists paying for it, this is a frightening prospect.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

– Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

Keep fighting for freedom and justice. A man must be willing to die for freedom. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

– Jesse Jackson

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

– Winston Churchill

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

– Benjamin Franklin

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

– Robert Green Ingersoll

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

– John Milton

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

– Thomas Jefferson

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

– Ronald Reagan

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

– Robert Heinlein

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

– Bob Marley

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

– Nelson Mandela

The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.

– Thucydides, Misattributed to Carrie Jones

A man of dignity may die but don’t bow down to a tyrant.

– Pawan Pratap Singh

I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of mind.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No man is free who is not master of himself.

– Epictetus, Arrians’s Discourses of Epictetus 35 (114)

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Freedom Quotes To Help You Realize The Importance of Liberty

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?

– Kahlil Gibran

That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

– Abraham Lincoln

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light. And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of greater freedom.

– Kahlil Gibran

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

– Viktor E. Frankl

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

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

– Paulo Coelho

There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

– Charles Kingsley

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.

– John Boyd

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you must take it.

– Malcolm X

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

– Thomas Jefferson

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

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

– Abraham Lincoln

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of your desires.

– Bertrand Russel

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

– Denis Diderot

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

– Bob Dylan

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

– Abraham Lincoln

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

– Isaiah Berlin

Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.

– Bill Owens

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

– Elbert Hubbard

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Top Inspirational Quotes About Freedom For Mighty Women

Freedom is when we have the courage to speak out about what we know is true, do what we feel is right, and fight for what we think is unfair. Freedom is when we realize that we can do absolutely anything except force another person to follow us in our madness or our lust for life. Freedom is when we are no longer slaves to our desires, society and its expectations, and luxury, or slaves to a life we did not choose.

– Sompong Yusoontorn

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

– Pope John Paul II

And my heart bled within me, for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.

– Kahlil Gibran

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

– Nelson Mandela

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, and free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

– Marcel Proust

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

– Alice Walker

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

– Pearl S. Buck

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

– Wayne Dyer

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

– Bertrand Russell

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

– Audre Lorde

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

– Marsha P. Johnson

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

– Malcolm X

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

– Mary Wollstonecraft

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

– Simone de Beauvoir

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

– Voltaire

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

– Robert Frost

Mental slavery is worse than physical slavery.

– Anonymous

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can’t take the sky from me…

– Joss Whedon

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Quotes on Freedom That Will Motivate You As You Read Them

If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them. And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

– Kahlil Gibran

Nothing speaks so strongly of freedom as the fact that the descendants of those who went through great agony — which, thank Heaven, has passed away — have now full opportunities and can help celebrate my fifty years’ work for liberty.

– Susan B. Anthony

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

– Arnold J. Toynbee

Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.

– Swami Vivekananda

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

– Thomas Paine

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

– Frederick Douglass

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

– Thomas Paine

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

– Maximilien Robespierre

Personal Freedom should be limited to the point where it would not be a problem for others.

– John Stuart Mill

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

– Vernon Howard

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

– Epictetus

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

– Toni Morrison

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is the right to one’s dignity as a man.

– Archibald MacLeish

The precondition to freedom is security.

– Rand Beers

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Short Financial Freedom Quotes To Build A Better Future

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

– Jim Morrison

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

– Charlotte Brontë

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

– John Stuart Mill

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.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

– Sigmund Freud

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

– Vladimir Lenin

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

– Patrick Henry

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

– Suze Orman

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

– Herbert Hoover

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.

– W.E.B. Du Bois

There is no value of Personal freedom without economic security and liberty.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

– Charles Evans Hughes

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

– George Bernard Shaw

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

– Nelson Mandela

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

– George Allen

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

– John F. Kennedy

Only the educated are free.

– Epictetus

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Best Independence Quotes To Start A New Chapter In Your Life

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

– Stephen King

In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes. And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?

– Kahlil Gibran

Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

– Stephen R. Covey

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

– James Baldwin

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

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

– Malcolm X

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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

– Pope John Paul II

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

– Baruch Spinoza

Only that system will be free through which we are able to express ourselves.

– Anonymous

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

– George Washington

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

– Samuel Johnson

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

– Morihei Ueshiba

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

– Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

– Friedrich Engels

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

– Moshe Dayan

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Freedom Quotes That Ensure The Liberty of Every Human Being

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. And if it is fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

– Kahlil Gibran

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

– Abraham Lincoln

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

– Edwin Markham

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with the full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

– Friedrich August von Hayek

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

– Harvey Fierstein

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others.

– George Washington

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

– Malcolm X

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.

– Patricia Sampson

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

– Frank Herbert

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

– Tertullian

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

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

– John F. Kennedy

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

– Toni Morrison

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

– John Philpot Curran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

– Kahlil Gibran

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Motivational Quotes About Freedom You Should Never Forget

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

– Tim Pawlenty

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

– Thomas Jefferson

If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

– Noam Chomsky

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level than to live a life of pretty privilege devoid of true freedom.

– Bryant H. McGill

If you have nothing, then you have everything because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

– Jarod Kintz

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Albert Einstein

When I know I am free within myself, I will be better able to give loving thoughts to others.

– Anonymous

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

– Pericles

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

– Bertrand Russell

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.

– Brigham Young

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

– Maxwell Anderson

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

– Coco Chanel

Never trust the words of a man who is not free.

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be free is to have achieved your life.

– Tennessee Williams

He who is brave is free.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Freedom Quotes That Highlight The Importance of Law & Justice

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

– Robert A. Heinlein

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

– Margaret Sanger

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

– John Locke

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

– Coretta Scott King

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

– Jonathan Sacks

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

– Carl Schurz

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

– Jim Morrison

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

– Clarence Darrow

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

– David Herbert Lawrence

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

When there is a state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

– Vladimir Lenin

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

– William Lloyd Garrison

Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

– Lawana Blackwell

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

– Harvey Milk

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

– Tennessee Williams

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

The cost of freedom is always high.

– John F. Kennedy

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Famous Freedom Quotes For Students With Beautiful Images

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

– Thomas Jefferson

#Justice is never given; it is always exacted and the struggle must be continuous; for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuous evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political, and religious relationship.

– A. Philip Randolph

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

– Samuel Adams

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

– Albert Camus

It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

– Samuel Adams

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind!

– Marcus Mosiah Garvey (The Work That Has Been Done, 1937), Misattributed to Bob Marley

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

– George W. Bush

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

– Malcolm X

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

– John Milton

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

– Karl Marx

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

– William Faulkner

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

– Jim Morrison

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

– George Orwell

Only he can be independent who does his own work.

– Anonymous

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

– John C. Calhoun

Freedom is my right by birth.

– Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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Freedom Quotes To Set You Free From Shackles of Bondage

Freedom is like a house: you build it brick by brick. The first brick you should lay is willpower. This quality inspires you to do what is right in any given moment. It gives you the energy to act with courage. It gives you the control to live the life you have imagined rather than accepting the life that you have.

– Robin Sharma

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

– Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

– Malcolm X

There are two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

– Anais Nin

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

– Harriet Tubman

Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

– Coretta Scott King

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

– Peter Marshall

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

– George Orwell

It is unfortunate that we buy worldly happiness at the price of the freedom of the Soul.

– Anonymous

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

– Walter Cronkite

Just living is not enough, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

– Hans Christian Andersen

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

– Ernest Renan

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

– Mortimer J. Adler

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

– Frank Tyger

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

– William O. Douglas

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

– Henry Louis Mencken

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

– Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

– Albert Camus

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

– Voltaire

Everyone loves freedom because freedom allows people to make choices that they’re proud of. This makes them happier because they know they’ve earned happiness through their free will. For some people, the most crucial thing will be economic freedom; for others, free speech will matter more.

Remember, the quest for freedom is never too late regardless of what our present age is. The quest for freedom starts now at this very moment. We hope these short freedom and independence quotes will help you to experience liberty to some extent in this chaotic life.

What’s your favorite freedom quote, tell us in the comment section below. And do not forget to share these awesome independence quotes with your friends and followers.

“Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”

– Swami Vivekananda

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