Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

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

Lenin

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Henry, Patrick

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 the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

12.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

17.

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.

18.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

20.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

21.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Quayle, Dan

27.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Mandela, Nelson

29.

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

Scott, Hazel

30.

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

Stone, I. F.

31.

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

Durant, William J.

32.

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

Hill, Christopher

33.

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

Herbert, Frank

34.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

35.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

36.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

37.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

41.

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

Washington, George

42.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

43.

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

Pericles

44.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

45.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

50.

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