Freedom Quotes

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

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg

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

In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order.  I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant

They may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom.
Mel Gibson

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Harvey Milk

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai Stevenson

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

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
Thomas Campbell

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

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein

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

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
Alan Keyes

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

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Freedom means choosing your burden.
Hephzibah Menuhin

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus