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

He who is brave is free.
Seneca

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

You needn’t catch a ball which is thrown to you.

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

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

The grass is always greener where the fence isn’t.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
Benjamin Franklin

I trained him not to train me.
John C Lehman

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
Bernard Shaw

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

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

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
Lucy Larcom

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
Marian Wright Edelman

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
Thomas Campbell

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser

Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

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

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.”
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
Andre Gide

Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
Erich Fromm

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

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

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
Gen Michel Aoun

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Dorothy Thompson

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

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Jeffrey Borenstein