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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

12.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

Drummond, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lord Acton

19.

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

20.

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

Durant, William J.

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

23.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

24.

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

25.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

33.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

35.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Malcolm X

37.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

44.

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

45.

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

Washington, George

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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

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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.

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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