Here is my selection of freedom and liberty quotes:
“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?
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