Top 200 Freedom Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

— George Orwell

52. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

53. “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

— Albert Camus

54. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

55. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

56. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

57. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

58. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

59. “Resist much, obey little.”

— Walt Whitman

60. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

61. “A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

— Ayn Rand

62. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

— Charlotte Brontë

63. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

— William Blake

64. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

65. “Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

66. “Take the risk of thinking for yourself.”

— Christopher Hitchens

67. “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”

— Frederick Salomon Perls

68. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

— George Orwell

69. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

— Christopher Morley

70. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

71. “Here lies Dobby, a free elf.”

— J.K. Rowling

72. “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

— Ronald Reagan

73. “Think for yourself and question authority.”

— Timothy Leary

74. “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

75. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

— Jack Kerouac

76. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”

— Paulo Coelho

77. “Freedom is not given – it is taken.”

— Subhas Chandra Bose

78. “You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure...”

— Charlie Chaplin

79. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

80. “By any means necessary.”

— Malcolm X

81. “I live for myself and answer to nobody.”

— Steve McQueen

82. “Be brave, be bold, be free.”

— Angelina Jolie

83. “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

84. “An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’”

— Ayn Rand

85. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

86. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley

87. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

88. “You can do anything you want to do – This is your world.”

— Bob Ross

89. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

90. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

91. “People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

92. “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

— George Orwell

93. “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

— Paulo Coelho

94. “Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.”

— Susan B. Anthony

95. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

— Rumi

96. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

97. “You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

98. “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

99. “It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

100. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

— Audre Lorde