45+ Free Quotes That Will Fuel Your Desire to Run Wild and Live by Your Own Rules

Free Inspirational Quotes

• “I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.” – Future

• “We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.” – Sark

• “I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.” – John Muir

• “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus

• “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!” – Joss Whedon

• “One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.” – George Will

• “I want to live my life without filters. I don’t walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I’m a very free spirit.” – Demi Lovato

• “Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?” – Gabrielle Roth

• “I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.” – Rick James

• “Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I’m just a free spirit.” – Lauren Jauregui

• “I am living breathing freedom.” – Hiroko Sakai

• “I am a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I’m a diamond. I’m just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.” – Simeon Rice

• “No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.” – Audrey Hepburn

• “The soul is an infinite ocean of just beautiful energy and presence made manifest in human form.” – Panache Desai

• “A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.” – Mason Cooley

• “And it is you, spirit — with will and energy, and virtue and purity — that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.” – Charlotte Bronte

Free Speech Quotes

• “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

• “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

• “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” ― Oscar Wilde

• “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ― Henry Louis Gates Jr

• “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

• “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington

• “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." ― Harry S. Truman

• “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.” ― Christopher Hitchens

• “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” ― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology

• “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” ― John Milton , Areopagitica

• “Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. ― Jim C. Hines

• “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” ― James Madison

• “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

• “Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.” ― St. Catherine of Siena

• “This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women