Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

James, William

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

11.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

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

Pericles

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

21.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

22.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

26.

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

Burke, Edmund

27.

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

28.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

32.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

Greer, Germaine

34.

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

Stone, I. F.

35.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

36.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Hill, Christopher

39.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Bhagavad Gita

45.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

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

Adams, John

48.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

49.

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

Washington, George

50.

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.