Top 200 Freedom Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

152. “No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Vernon Howard

154. “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

155. “You belong somewhere you feel free.”

— Tom Petty

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

— Malcolm X

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

— C.G. Jung

158. “You are the captain of your own ship; don’t let anyone else take the wheel.”

— Michael Josephson

159. “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

160. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

162. “Every man has a right to decide his own destiny.”

— Bob Marley

163. “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”

— John Lennon

164. “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

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

— George Orwell

166. “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”

— Emiliano Zapata

167. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Malcolm X

169. “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.”

— Zhuangzi

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— George Orwell

173. “With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

175. “Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

— Epictetus

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

— Albert Einstein

177. “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

178. “Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Franz Kafka

180. “A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”

— Maya Angelou

181. “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

182. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— John F. Kennedy

184. “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”

— Nelson Mandela

185. “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

186. “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

187. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

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

— Frederick Douglass

189. “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

190. “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

— Pope John Paul II

191. “Have a vision. Be demanding.”

— Colin Powell

192. “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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

194. “Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”

— Epictetus

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Milton Friedman

197. “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

198. “Just can’t wait to get on the road again.”

— Willie Nelson

199. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Oscar Wilde