Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

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.

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

Washington, George

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

12.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

13.

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

14.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

15.

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

16.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

17.

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

Hill, Christopher

18.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

19.

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.

20.

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

Washington, George

21.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

22.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

23.

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

24.

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

Mckern, Leo

25.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

26.

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

William Hazlitt

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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

28.

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

Pike, Albert

29.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

31.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

32.

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

33.

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

Horace

34.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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.

36.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

43.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

45.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

46.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.