Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Reagan, Ronald

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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.

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

Adams, John

10.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

11.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

12.

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

Stone, I. F.

13.

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

14.

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

Mandela, Nelson

15.

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

Scott, Hazel

16.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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

18.

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

Lord Acton

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

21.

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

Byron, Lord

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

Herbert, Frank

27.

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

28.

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

Pike, Albert

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

32.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Dass, Ram

35.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

41.

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.

42.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

43.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Persius

48.

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

49.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

50.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.