“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Women's RightsEquality
Freedom Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FREEDOM
Freedom Quotes
Read the best freedom quotes from Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Swami Vivekananda, Shakespeare, the Bible and more, with timeless words on liberty and independence.
“Thy friends are exultations, agonies, and love, and man's unconquerable mind.”
William Wordsworth
Inner FreedomPoetry
“O Liberty! with profitless endeavour have I pursued thee, many a weary hour.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LongingPoetry
“The mountains look on Marathon - and Marathon looks on the sea.”
Lord Byron
HistoryPoetry
“Liberty begins where ignorance ends.”
Victor Hugo
EducationKnowledge
“He only earns his freedom and existence, who daily conquers them anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
EffortPerseverance
“Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: or else he must be a slave.”
Epictetus
IndependenceStoicism
“Do you ask what freedom is? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance.”
Seneca
Inner FreedomStoicism
“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Cicero
GratitudeHistory
“Few men desire liberty; the majority are satisfied with a just master.”
Sallust
Human NaturePolitics
“If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.”
Aesop
IndependenceFables
“Liberty of thought and action is the only condition of life, of growth and well-being. Where it does not exist, the man, the race, the nation must go down.”
Swami Vivekananda
Freedom Of ThoughtNation
“Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?”
William Shakespeare
TyrannySacrifice
“Then to the elements be free, and fare thou well!”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoRelease
“I must have liberty withal, as large a charter as the wind, to blow on whom I please.”
William Shakespeare
Free SpeechIndependence
“Denmark's a prison.”
William Shakespeare
Feeling TrappedShort Quotes
“I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
The Bible (Exodus 20:2)
DeliveranceFaith
“He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.”
The Bible (Psalm 107:14)
DeliveranceBreaking Free
“O Lord, truly I am thy servant; thou hast loosed my bonds.”
The Bible (Psalm 116:16)
GratitudeRelease
“That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.”
The Bible (Isaiah 49:9)
ReleaseHope
“Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope.”
The Bible (Zechariah 9:12)
HopeFaith
“For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 9:19)
ServiceHumility
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
The Bible (Romans 8:2)
Spiritual FreedomFaith
“Who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.”
The Bible (Galatians 2:4)
VigilanceFaith
“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them.”
The Bible (Hebrews 13:3)
CompassionPrisoners