Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

10.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

11.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

12.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

13.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

14.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

16.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

17.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

19.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

20.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

21.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

23.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

27.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

28.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

29.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

30.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

34.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

36.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

37.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

38.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

39.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

40.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

42.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

43.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

45.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt