Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Pascal, Blaise

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

10.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

11.

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

12.

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

Adams, John

13.

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

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

16.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

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.

18.

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

Mckern, Leo

19.

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

20.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

21.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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.

26.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

29.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

Madonna

31.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

32.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

33.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

36.

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

William Hazlitt

37.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

39.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

40.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

42.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

43.

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

44.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

45.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

46.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

47.

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

Clinton, Bill

48.

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

Stone, I. F.

49.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

50.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.