Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Malcolm X

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

10.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

Scott, Hazel

12.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

13.

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

Terence

14.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

16.

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

Washington, George

17.

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

18.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

19.

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

Blum, Leon

20.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

21.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

26.

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

27.

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

William Hazlitt

28.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

29.

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

Orwell, George

30.

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

31.

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

Pound, Ezra

32.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

33.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

38.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

41.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

42.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

43.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Persius

45.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

49.

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

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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.