Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Freedom

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Hazlitt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

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

12.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

14.

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

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

20.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

21.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

22.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

23.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

24.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

26.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Mandela, Nelson

28.

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

29.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

30.

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

31.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

32.

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

33.

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

Rushdie, Salman

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

39.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Reagan, Ronald

43.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

44.

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

Lawana Blackwell

45.

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

Quayle, Dan

46.

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

Henry, Patrick

47.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

48.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

49.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van