Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

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

Burke, Edmund

2.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

3.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

4.

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

5.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

7.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

8.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

9.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

10.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

11.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

Lord Acton

14.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

16.

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

Clinton, Bill

17.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

18.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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.

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

Washington, George

22.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

25.

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

26.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

28.

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

29.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

30.

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

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

Stone, I. F.

33.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

34.

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.

35.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

37.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

38.

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