
Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.Faiz Ahmed Faiz
These 53 quotes on freedom come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom.Subhas Chandra Bose

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.Jawaharlal Nehru

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all.Bhagat Singh

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.Ho Chi Minh

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your liberty to promote ours.Aung San Suu Kyi

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is condemned to be free.Jean-Paul Sartre

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.Wole Soyinka

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.Kofi Annan

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.W.E.B. Du Bois

In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in Saint-Domingue; it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.Toussaint Louverture

My mouth shall be the mouth of those calamities that have no mouth, my voice, the freedom of those who break down in the prison-cell of despair.Aimé Césaire

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Zhuangzi

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.Ralph Ellison

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.Michelangelo

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.B.R. Ambedkar

Freedom is not given, it is taken.Subhas Chandra Bose

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.Thich Nhat Hanh

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.Nikos Kazantzakis

While a people preserves its language, it preserves the marks of liberty.Jose Rizal
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.Gautama Buddha
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.Epictetus
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.Lewis B. Smedes
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.Leon Blum
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.Richard Bach
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Richard Bach
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.Richard Bach
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms — to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones…Viktor Frankl
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.Mohandas Gandhi
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.Paul Tillich
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.Jean-Paul Sartre
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.Felix Adler
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No man is free who is not master of himself.Epictetus
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.Simone Weil
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.Thomas Jefferson
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang Tzu
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.George Washington
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.Rosa Parks

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.Thich Nhat Hanh

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl S. Buck

The law is reason, free from passion.Aristotle

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

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!Richard Bach

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.Rabindranath Tagore