Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

2.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

3.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

6.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

8.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

9.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

12.

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

13.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

14.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

15.

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

Washington, George

16.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Durant, William J.

18.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

21.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

23.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

24.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

26.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

27.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

29.

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

Henry, Patrick

30.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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.

32.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

34.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

36.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

37.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

38.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

39.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

40.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

41.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

42.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

43.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

44.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

45.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

46.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

49.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

50.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise