Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

3.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

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

Johnson, Samuel

6.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

7.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

8.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

9.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

16.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

17.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

20.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Reagan, Ronald

22.

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

Drummond, William

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

25.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

26.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

27.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

28.

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

29.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

30.

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

Blum, Leon

31.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

32.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

34.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

35.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

36.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

42.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

43.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

44.

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

Herbert, Frank

45.

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

Ruskin, John

46.

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?