Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

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

Dass, Ram

12.

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

13.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

16.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Washington, George

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

24.

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

25.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

26.

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

27.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

28.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

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.

30.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Washington, George

34.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

35.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

36.

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

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

41.

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

Malcolm X

42.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

44.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

45.

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)

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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

47.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

48.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

49.

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.

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

Ewer, W. N.