Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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.

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

10.

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.

11.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

13.

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

Terence

14.

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

Burke, Edmund

15.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

16.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Macleish, Archibald

22.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

23.

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

Horace

24.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

25.

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.

26.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Pericles

28.

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.

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

31.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

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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

34.

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

Lenin

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

39.

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

40.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

42.

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

Washington, George

43.

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

Madonna

44.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

45.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Orwell, George

47.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

48.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

49.

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

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath