Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

10.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

11.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

15.

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

Ewer, W. N.

16.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

19.

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

20.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

21.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

22.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

23.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

24.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Milton, John

26.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

28.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

30.

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.

31.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

32.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Mckern, Leo

35.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

36.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

37.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

38.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

40.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

Quayle, Dan

43.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

44.

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.

45.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Horace

47.

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.

48.

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

Patricia Sampson

49.

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

50.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo