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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Washington, George

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

10.

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

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

13.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

16.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

17.

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

18.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

22.

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

Greer, Germaine

23.

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.

24.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

25.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

26.

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

27.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

28.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

31.

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

Persius

32.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

33.

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

34.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

35.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Byron, Lord

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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

40.

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

44.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

45.

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

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

48.

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

Malcolm X

49.

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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire