Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Pericles

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

14.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

15.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

17.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

18.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

21.

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

22.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

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

24.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

25.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

28.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

29.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

30.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

32.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

33.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

34.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

36.

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

Mckern, Leo

37.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Blum, Leon

39.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

40.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

44.

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

Chomsky, Noam

45.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca