Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Orwell, George

10.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

14.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

15.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

18.

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

19.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

20.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Pericles

26.

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

Clinton, Bill

27.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

28.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

29.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

34.

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

Silesius, Angelus

35.

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

38.

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

Herbert, Frank

39.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

42.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

43.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

44.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

45.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

47.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

48.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

49.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

50.

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.