Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Horace

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Milton, John

11.

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

12.

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

Durant, William J.

13.

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

Chomsky, Noam

14.

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

Reagan, Ronald

15.

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

Patricia Sampson

16.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

17.

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

18.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

20.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

22.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

23.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Brown, Norman O.

26.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

27.

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

28.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Drummond, William

35.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

37.

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

38.

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

Pericles

39.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

45.

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.