Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Washington, George

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

10.

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

Mckern, Leo

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

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

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

15.

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)

16.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

17.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

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.

20.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

22.

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

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Pike, Albert

25.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

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

28.

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

29.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

30.

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

Washington, George

31.

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

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

35.

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

36.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orwell, George

38.

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

39.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

42.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Patricia Sampson

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.