Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Pericles

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

12.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

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

Adams, John

15.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

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

Hill, Christopher

18.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

19.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

20.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

23.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

24.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

25.

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

26.

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

Patricia Sampson

27.

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)

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

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

May, Rollo

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

38.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

39.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

40.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

41.

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