Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Terence

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

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lenin

13.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

15.

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

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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

17.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

18.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

20.

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

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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)

25.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

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

29.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Orwell, George

31.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

32.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

35.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Madonna

38.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

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

Silesius, Angelus

46.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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