Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

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

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

Patricia Sampson

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Terence

11.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

14.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

16.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

18.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

19.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Henry, Patrick

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

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

24.

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

25.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Albert Einstein

28.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

31.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

32.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

34.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

39.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

40.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

43.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

44.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

45.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

46.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.