Motivational Quotes

Freedom

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Burke, Edmund

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Patricia Sampson

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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.

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

Quayle, Dan

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Mckern, Leo

12.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

14.

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

15.

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

Herbert, Frank

16.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

17.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Scott, Hazel

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

22.

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

23.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

25.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

32.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

33.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

34.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

37.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

38.

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

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

47.

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

Milton, John

48.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

He who is brave is free.