Freedom Quotes and Sayings

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
A universal license to be good.
Hartley Coleridge

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

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Liberty is the right to do everything which the laws allow.
Baron de Montesquieu

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran

My government will protect all liberties but one – the liberty to do away with other liberties.
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle

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

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Paul Valéry

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
Samuel Hendel

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

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

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill

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

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