Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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.

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

10.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

11.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

13.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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.

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

18.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

23.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

24.

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

Drummond, William

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

Orwell, George

27.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

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

30.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

31.

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

32.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

33.

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

Pericles

34.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

35.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

Mandela, Nelson

37.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

40.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

41.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

43.

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

Adams, John

44.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

46.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

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

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

50.

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