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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

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

11.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

13.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

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

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Adams, John

17.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

19.

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

Pericles

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

22.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

23.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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

Drummond, William

26.

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

Terence

27.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

Quayle, Dan

30.

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

31.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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.

33.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

34.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

35.

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

Dass, Ram

36.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

42.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

43.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

47.

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

Durant, William J.

48.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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