Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

- Thomson, Linda

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.

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

Carl Schurz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Thomas Jefferson

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

11.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Bhagavad Gita

13.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

14.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

15.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

Herbert, Frank

19.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

20.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

21.

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

Durant, William J.

22.

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

Blum, Leon

23.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

25.

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

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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

29.

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

30.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

36.

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

Sevareid, Eric

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

40.

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

Adams, John

41.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

42.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

47.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

Orwell, George

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

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.