Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"Freedom ain't free—somebody always gotta fight for it."
Redd Foxx
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"There's a certain freedom in getting older and just not caring what people think anymore."
Ray Romano
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"Freedom is the right to be yourself."
Terry Gilliam
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"Freedom is the right to be wrong"
Eric Idle
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"Freedom is worth fighting for every single day."
Redd Foxx
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"You can't please everyone, so you might as well please yourself."
Frankie Howerd
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"The world is full of people trying to be someone else."
Frankie Howerd
"All I have is a voice and a willingness to say what I think."
Spike Milligan
"I believe in freedom of speech—I just don't believe in freedom of consequence."
Spike Milligan
"I believe in living life on my own terms, even if it confuses everyone else."
Spike Milligan
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"The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Find a way of letting it be what it wants to be."
Terry Gilliam
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"We spend our lives building cages and then wondering why we feel trapped."
Terry Gilliam
"We spend so much time being what others expect; we forget who we actually are."
Peter Sellers
"Freedom means the right to choose your own failures."
Peter Sellers
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that is why he is a fool."
John Cleese
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"Freedom means different things to different people at different times."
Frankie Howerd
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"Freedom of expression is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Eric Idle
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"Freedom is the ability to be yourself without apology."
Eric Idle
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"Freedom isn't free - somebody always has to pay the price."
Redd Foxx
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"Freedom means you get to choose your own chains."
Redd Foxx
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"We're all prisoners of our own perception, but some of us choose to see through the bars."
Terry Gilliam
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"The only rules worth following are the ones you create yourself."
Terry Gilliam
"The freedom to express oneself is the greatest gift of the arts."
Peter Sellers
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"The freedom to fail is what allows us to succeed"
Tony Hancock
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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
John Cleese
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"Freedom of speech includes the freedom to be offensive."
John Cleese
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a crime."
Spike Milligan
"Freedom is the right to be wrong"
Monty Python
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"Freedom requires responsibility; they cannot exist separately."
Eric Idle
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"Freedom without boundaries becomes tyranny for others."
Eric Idle