Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

2.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

3.

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

4.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

5.

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

Pascal, Blaise

6.

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

Burke, Edmund

7.

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

8.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

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.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

12.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Washington, George

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Hamilton, Edith

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

20.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Silesius, Angelus

23.

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

Adams, John

24.

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

Patricia Sampson

25.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

26.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

28.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

29.

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

Stone, I. F.

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Pike, Albert

32.

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

Blum, Leon

33.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

34.

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

Henry, Patrick

35.

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

Lenin

36.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

39.

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

May, Rollo

40.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

43.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

45.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

46.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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