Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Lenin

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

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.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

11.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

12.

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

13.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

14.

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

15.

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

18.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Silesius, Angelus

20.

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

21.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

22.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

23.

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

Stone, I. F.

24.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

25.

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

Albert Einstein

26.

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

Mckern, Leo

27.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

28.

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

29.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

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

Henry, Patrick

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

38.

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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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

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

42.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

43.

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

Hill, Christopher

44.

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.

45.

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

Macleish, Archibald

46.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

47.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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.