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Famous Freedom And Liberty Quotes To Set You Free

Here is my selection of freedom and liberty quotes:

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“He who is brave is free.” – Seneca


“So far as a person thinks; they are free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard


“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.” – Henry David Thoreau


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


“Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.” – Unknown


“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick


“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner


“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.” – Will Rogers


“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.” – Abraham Lincoln


“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” – Voltaire


“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire


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


“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche


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


“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus


“Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.” – Barbara Hall


“Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.” – Tennessee Williams


“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” – Stephen R. Covey


“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” – Charles Evans Hughes


“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.” – Ambrose Bierce


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


“Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.” – Gao Xingjian


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


“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” – Clarence Darrow


“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus


“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.” – Walter Cronkite


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


“Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?” – Francis Wright


“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” – Benjamin Franklin


“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw


“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.” – Patricia Sampson


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


“Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.” – Unknown


“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.” – Theodore Roosevelt


“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” – Mahatma Gandhi


“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” – Thucydides


“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.” – Epictetus


“No man is free who is not a master of himself.” – Epictetus


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


So, which are your favorite famous freedom and liberty quotes to set you free?