Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

10.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

11.

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

12.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

15.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

17.

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

18.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

19.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

20.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

22.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

23.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

24.

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

Persius

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

28.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

29.

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

30.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

31.

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

32.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

33.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

34.

Gordimer, Nadine

35.

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

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

43.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

44.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

45.

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

Patricia Sampson

46.

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

47.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

49.

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

Orwell, George

50.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz