Top 40 Freedom Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

— Moshe Dayan

Also featured in: Patriotic Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes

2. “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Also featured in: Quotes on Liberty

3. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: 4th Of July Quotes

4. “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— George Washington

Also featured in: 4th Of July Quotes

5. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes

6. “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

7. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes

8. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Witty Quotes

9. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope

10. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

11. “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

— Franz Kafka

12. “The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Passion Quotes

13. “Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”

— Vernon Howard

Also featured in: Quotes About Numbers

14. “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

15. “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Patriotic Quotes

16. “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

— Thomas Paine

Also featured in: Country Quotes

17. “Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.”

— C.G. Jung

18. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Responsibility Quotes

19. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

— Jim Morrison

20. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

— George Orwell

Also featured in: Imagination Quotes

21. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: 4th Of July Quotes

22. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

23. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

— George Orwell

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Ignorance Quotes

24. “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Change Quotes

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

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Education Quotes

26. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Powerful Quotes

27. “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Healing Quotes

28. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Also featured in: Patriotic Quotes

29. “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

30. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

31. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Faith Quotes

32. “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

33. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Quotes About Work

34. “Have a vision. Be demanding.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Vision Quotes

35. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

— H. L. Mencken

36. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Philosophy Quotes

37. “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

— Milton Friedman

Also featured in: Quotes on Liberty

38. “Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”

— Ronald Reagan

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Rights Quotes

39. “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Justice Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

40. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes