Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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.

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

Orwell, George

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Adams, John

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Pericles

10.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

12.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

16.

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

17.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

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

Clinton, Bill

20.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

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

Madonna

22.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

23.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

24.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

25.

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

26.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

27.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

32.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

33.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

34.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

35.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

36.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

40.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

41.

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

Patricia Sampson

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

44.

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

Scott, Hazel

45.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

47.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

48.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

49.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

50.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.