Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Ewer, W. N.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Luther, Martin

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

Reagan, Ronald

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Hamilton, Edith

12.

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

Stone, I. F.

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.

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

15.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

16.

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

17.

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

20.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

23.

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

24.

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

Brown, Norman O.

25.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Clinton, Bill

27.

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

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

34.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

37.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

38.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

39.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

40.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

41.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

42.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

43.

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.

44.

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

Drummond, William

45.

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

46.

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

Malcolm X

47.

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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