Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hoffer, Eric

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

11.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

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.

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

16.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

17.

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.

18.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

23.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

24.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

30.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

31.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

32.

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

Lord Acton

33.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

34.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

35.

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

36.

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

Washington, George

37.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

38.

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

Washington, George

39.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

40.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

41.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

42.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

43.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

44.

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

45.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

46.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

47.

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