Freedom quotes

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Do you know who said: “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”? Browse through our free collection of freedom quotes and learn the answer.

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.” Martin Luther King

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

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” Albert Einstein

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

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” Mark Twain

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.” Frank Herbert

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

“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.” Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.” Corliss Lamont

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.” Corliss Lamont

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.” Nelson Mandela

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Nelson Mandela

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.” Nelson Mandela

“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” Nelson Mandela

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” Nelson Mandela

“There is no such thing as part freedom.” Nelson Mandela

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

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” Thomas Jefferson

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Thomas Jefferson

“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” Thomas Jefferson

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” Franklin Roosevelt

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

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

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.” Sigmund Freud

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” Dean Acheson

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.” Marilyn Monroe

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” Abraham Lincoln

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