23 Freedom Quotes - Independent Quotes to Inspire
George Washington
Getty Images“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
2Kahlil Gibran
Povareshka//Getty Images“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
3Herbert Hoover
Getty Images“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
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4Albert Einstein
Povareshka//Getty Images“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
5Nelson Mandela
Getty Images“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.”
6Epictetus
Povareshka//Getty Images“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
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7Robert Frost
Povareshka//Getty Images“Freedom lies in being bold.”
8Maya Angelou
Getty Images“Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”
9Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Getty Images“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
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10William Faulkner
Povareshka//Getty Images“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
11Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Getty Images“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
12Aung San Suu Kyi
Povareshka//Getty Images“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
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13Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Getty Images"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
14Buddha
Povareshka//Getty Images“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.”
15Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Getty Images“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind
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16Ralph Waldo Emerson
Povareshka//Getty Images“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
17Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Getty Images“What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free, and own no superior?”
18Alice Walker
Povareshka//Getty Images“No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
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19Amelia Earhart
Getty Images“As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly."
20attributed to John Lennon
Povareshka//Getty Images“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”
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