Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

--Jean Jacques Rousseau

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

--Thucydides quotes

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

--Rabindranath Tagore

He who is brave is free.

--Seneca

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

--Milton

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

--M. K. Gandhi

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

--Samuel Bowles

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

--Abraham Lincoln

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

--Bertrand Russell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

--George Orwell

Freedom awakens hope.

--Indira Gandhi

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

--Moshe Dayan

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

--Lenin

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

--Voltaire

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

--Jawaharlal Nehru

Freedom can be real only if it is freedom for those who think differently.

--Rose Luxemburg

Freedom comes from human beings rather than from laws and institutions.

--Clarence Darrow

Freedom is to live one's life with the window of the soul open to new thoughts, new ideas, new inspirations.

--Harold Ickes

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

--Stephen R. Covey

Only when one is free, can one free others.

--Sri Aurobindo

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

--Benjamin Franklin

No man is free who is not master of himself.

--Epictetus

Freedom is participation in power.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom lies in being bold.

--Robert Frost

We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

--Franklin D. Roosevelt

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

--Antoine de Saint Exupery

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

--Albert Camus

Freedom cannot be granted, it must be taken.

--Max Stirner

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

--Gen Michel Aoun

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

--John Stuart Mill

The road to freedom is not strewn with roses. It is a path covered with thorns, but at the end of it, there is the full-blown rose of liberty, awaiting the tired pilgrim.

--Subash Chandra Bose