Freedom Quotes

Famous Freedom Quotes

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level. - Zig Ziglar


Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. - Franklin D. Roosevelt


Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey


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


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


I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. - Rosa Parks


The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. - Johnny Carson


What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom? - Edward Abbey


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


When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it. - Zig Ziglar


Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. - Harriet Rubin


Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. - R. G. Collingwood


It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. - Thomas Henry Huxley


Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. - Suzanne La Follette


The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. - Viktor Frankl


There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


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


Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take. But as for me, give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry



There are only 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


Whatever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. - John Quincy Adams


Absolute liberty is absence of restraint. Responsibility is Restraint. Therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. - Henry Brooks Adams (


Not easy to achieve freedom without chaos. - Anais Nin


All we have of freedom, all we use or know - this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. - J. Rudyard Kipling


All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem to the horizon. That is the essense of academic freedom. - William O. Douglas


Without freedom, no art. Art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others. - Albert Camus


The bachelor's admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself, the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. - George Jean Nathan


He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. - Arthur Schopenhauer


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


Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. - Vaclav Havel


True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. - Brigham Young







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