Freedom Quotes

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

Malcolm X

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

I have walked the 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 comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

Nelson Mandela

There is freedom in forgiveness, in knowing we are forgiven.

I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

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

Franklin D Roosevelt

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

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Barack Obama

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Abraham Lincoln

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F Kennedy

Freedom is the power to say no.

James Clear

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

William Cowper

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Malcolm X

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

Walt Disney

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

Goethe

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Erich Fromm

The free man never thinks of escape.

Jeanette Winterson

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Saul Alinsky

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life. Freedom demands structure.

Garrison Keillor

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

John 8:36

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

George Washington

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

Einstein

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Emerson

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Romans 6:18

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:1

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Romans 6:22

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:2

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:6

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:32

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

1 Corinthians 7:22

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton Conway March

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

Hans Christian Andersen

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

Frank Herbert

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.