Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Terence

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Henry, Patrick

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Thomas Jefferson

12.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

13.

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

14.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

18.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

19.

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

Quayle, Dan

20.

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

Orwell, George

21.

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

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

24.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

25.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

26.

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

Mckern, Leo

27.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

29.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

30.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

31.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

32.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

33.

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.

34.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Washington, George

38.

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

Lenin

39.

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

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Lord Acton

42.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

44.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

45.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

46.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

48.

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

49.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.