Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Washington, George

12.

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

Blum, Leon

13.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Thomas Jefferson

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

29.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

30.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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.

37.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

44.

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

Horace

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

49.

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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.