Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Hazlitt

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

10.

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

11.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

12.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

13.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

14.

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

15.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Thomas Jefferson

17.

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

18.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

19.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

20.

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

Quayle, Dan

21.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

22.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

23.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

24.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

26.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

27.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

29.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

30.

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

Sevareid, Eric

31.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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.

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

37.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

38.

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

39.

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

May, Rollo

40.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

41.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

45.

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

Washington, George

46.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

47.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

48.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

50.

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