Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

13.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

16.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

19.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

20.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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.

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

26.

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

Horace

27.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

28.

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

29.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

32.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

35.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

36.

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

George, David Lloyd

37.

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

Washington, George

38.

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

Washington, George

39.

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

Hamilton, Edith

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

43.

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

Lenin

44.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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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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.

48.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

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

Bhagavad Gita