Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

2.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

5.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

6.

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

7.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

8.

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

Milton, John

9.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

12.

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

Henry, Patrick

13.

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.

14.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

15.

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

16.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Mandela, Nelson

18.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

19.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

21.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

24.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

25.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

Mckern, Leo

27.

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

28.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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)

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Pike, Albert

32.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

33.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Ewer, W. N.

35.

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.

36.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

37.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

38.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

39.

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

May, Rollo