Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

William Hazlitt

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Hamilton, Edith

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

15.

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

16.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

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

Patricia Sampson

20.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

21.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

22.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

23.

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

Adams, John

24.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

25.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

26.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

27.

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

Durant, William J.

28.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

30.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

31.

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

Bellin, Gita

32.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

33.

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

Blum, Leon

34.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

35.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

36.

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

Lenin

37.

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

Hill, Christopher

38.

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

39.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

41.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

43.

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

44.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

45.

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

Macleish, Archibald

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

Mckern, Leo

50.

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