Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Chomsky, Noam

Best Quotes about Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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 poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Reagan, Ronald

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

11.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

12.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

13.

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

14.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Horace

16.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

18.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

24.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

29.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

32.

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.

33.

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

Mckern, Leo

34.

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

Patricia Sampson

35.

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

36.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

38.

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

39.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

40.

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.

41.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

44.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

48.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.