Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

6.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

8.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

9.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

14.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

15.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Henry, Patrick

18.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

19.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

20.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

21.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

23.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

25.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

26.

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

27.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

28.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

30.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

31.

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

Brown, Norman O.

32.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

33.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

35.

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

36.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

39.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

41.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

43.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

44.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.