Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thomas Jefferson

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

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

Orwell, George

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

14.

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

15.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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

17.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

Pike, Albert

20.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

24.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

26.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

27.

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

28.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

29.

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

Lord Acton

30.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

31.

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

32.

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

Herbert, Frank

33.

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

Lenin

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Hill, Christopher

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

37.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

38.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

44.

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

Durant, William J.

45.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

48.

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

49.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia