Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rushdie, Salman

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Lord Acton

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

11.

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

12.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

13.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

14.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Macleish, Archibald

16.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

William Hazlitt

19.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

20.

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

21.

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

22.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

25.

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.

26.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

27.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

28.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

29.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

Adams, John

32.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

33.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

35.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

37.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

41.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

42.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

43.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

44.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

45.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.