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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Persius

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

10.

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

11.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

14.

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

Blum, Leon

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

19.

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

William Hazlitt

20.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

21.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

22.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

25.

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

Washington, George

26.

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

27.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

28.

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

29.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

30.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

31.

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

Reagan, Ronald

32.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Orwell, George

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

38.

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

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

41.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Pound, Ezra

43.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

Lenin

49.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

50.

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