Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

15.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

16.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

17.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

19.

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

20.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

21.

Yeltsin, Boris

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

William Hazlitt

27.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

29.

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

30.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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

Pericles

32.

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

Bellin, Gita

33.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

37.

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

38.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

40.

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

George, David Lloyd

41.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

42.

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

Pike, Albert

43.

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

Chomsky, Noam

44.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

47.

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

48.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

49.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

50.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik