Freedom Quotes and Sayings

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan

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

No one is free when others are oppressed.
Anonymous

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

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

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
Francis Wright

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it’s up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. Lawrence

Without freedom, no one really has a name.
Milton Acorda

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Anonymous

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

Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Joseph Addison

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Baron de Montesquieu

A man can be free even within prison walls. Freedom is something spiritual. Whoever has once
had it, can never lose it. There are some people who are never free outside a prison.
Anonymous

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Woodrow Wilson

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Arthur Baldwin

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Dorothy Thompson