Freedom is a sense of self-determination that allows you to do what you want without fear of punishment or retribution. This is typically referred to as “free will.”
Many people believe that freedom is an inalienable right that all humans should enjoy, and governments should ensure this. For some, freedom means being able to act without interference from other people. For others, it means having the ability and resources to decide how one should lead one’s own life.
Here are 145 inspirational Freedom quotes that will set you free
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” — Aung San Suu Kyi
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” — Ayn Rand
“We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. Che Guevara
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” ― Pope John Paul II
“Freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Follow your dreams. or you’ll spend the rest of your life working for someone who did.” ― Anonymous
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ― Anonymous
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” ― Jim Morrison
“Freedom begins between the ears.” ― Edward Abbey
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.” ― Aloud. Coco Chanel
“After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.” ― Malcolm X
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” ― George Washington Carver
“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” ― Madonna Ciccone
“When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.” ― Vaclav Havel
“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ― Thucydides
“Freedom exists only with power.” ― Friedrich Schiller
“When you come to the point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom will begin.” ― Unknown
“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.” ― Amelia Earhart
“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.” ― Anonymous
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” — Wendell Willkie
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Kahlil Gibran
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” ― Nelson Mandela
“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
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” ― Friedrich Schiller
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” ― Bob Dylan
“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” ― General John Stark
“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.” ― Nelson Mandela
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” ― Rabindranath Tagore
“I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.” ― Rosa Parks
“True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.” ― Dada Vaswani
“Freedom lies in being bold.” ― Robert Frost
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” ― John F. Kennedy
“Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Freedom is never free. It requires risk taking.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” ― John F. Kennedy
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
“Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus
“Without freedom there can be no morality.” ― Carl Jung
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ― Vicktor Emil Frankl
“Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.” ― Albert Einstein
“I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.” ― Morning Star
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.” ― Rosa Luxemburg
“A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.” ― Matt McGorry
“Freedom ― to walk free and own no superior.” ― Walt Whitman
“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” ― Suze Orman
“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” ― Robert Kiyosaki
“Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.” ― Lisa Murkowski
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.” ― Bob Marley
“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
“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” ― Malcolm X
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
“There is no such thing as part freedom.” ― Nelson Mandela
“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.” ― Virginia Woolf
“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
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” — William Faulkner
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” ― Albert Camus
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” ― Anonymous
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” ― Rosa Parks
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.” ― David Bowie
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” ― Wole Soyinka
“Stand for what’s right. Make your life beautiful. Make your life meaningful.” ― Maxime Lagacé
“Freedom is the outside of the inside.” ― Joyce Carey
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“If you cannot be free be as free as you can.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ― Winston Churchill
“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.” ― James Larkin
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” ― Adlai Stevenson
“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.” ― Malcolm X
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” — Herbert Hoover
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ― John F. Kennedy
“Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.” ― Prince
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” ― Voltaire
“One of the greatest mental freedoms is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you.” ― Anonymous
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom is the power to say no.” ― James Clear
“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
“Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.” ― Jessie E. Sampter
“Power is duty; freedom is responsibility.” ― Marie Dubsky
“Freedom is being you without anyone’s permission.” ― Anonymous
“Live your dreams, and be free.” ― ATGW
“Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom lies in being bold.” ― Robert Frost
“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
“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
“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” ― Brigham Young
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” ― Moshe Dayan
“Let go of your story so the universe can write a new one for you.” ― Marianne Williamson
“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
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom.” ― George Washington Carver
“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
“Freedom is never given; it is won.” ― A. Philip Randolph
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” ― Anonymous
“I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.” ― Melissa Etheridge
“I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.” ― Robert Downey, Jr.
“Freedom is found when we let go of who we’re supposed to be and embrace who we really are.” ― Anonymous
“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
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All the Men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them.” ― Leonard Cohen
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ― William Faulkner
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.” — Epictetus
“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” — Daniel J. Boorstin
“Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?” ― Anonymous
“The best freedom is being yourself.” ― Jim Morrison
“Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it.” ― Albert Einstein
“He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” ― Martin Luther King Jr
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” — George Washington
“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.” ― Vernon Howard
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.” ― Andrew Young
“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
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There’s no greater freedom than the freedom to be yourself. Give yourself that gift, and choose to surround yourself with those who appreciate you exactly as you truly are.” ― Doe Zantamata
“Freedom is a state of mind.” ― Anonymous
“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
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” — Albert Einstein
“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
“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 secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ― Maximilien Robespierre
“Art is the daughter of freedom.” ― Friedrich Schiller
“I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.” ― Kirk Cameron
“He who gives his freedom for safety gets none of them.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Bronte
“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
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” ― Edward R. Murrow
“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
“Freedom means choosing your burden.” ― Hephzibah Menuhin
“Let freedom never perish in your hands.” ― Joseph Addison
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose and to commit ourselves to our goals and values.” ― Paulo Coelho
“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
“You can do anything you decide to do.” ― Amelia Earhart
“I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.” ― Jimmy Wales
“I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.” ― Stockwell Day
“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
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell “It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
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