Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

- Orr, Lord Boyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Adams, John

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

15.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

18.

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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

22.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

23.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Durant, William J.

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

Greer, Germaine

27.

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.

28.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

32.

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.

33.

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

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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.

35.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

36.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

37.

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

Stone, I. F.

38.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

40.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

46.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

47.

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

Hamilton, Edith

48.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

50.

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