Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

- Norton, Eleanor Holmes

Best Quotes about Freedom

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Mandela, Nelson

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

10.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

11.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Drummond, William

15.

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

16.

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

William Hazlitt

17.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Quayle, Dan

22.

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

23.

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

Byron, Lord

24.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

25.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

26.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

31.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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.

38.

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

Pericles

39.

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

Lenin

40.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

41.

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

Pound, Ezra

42.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

43.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Rushdie, Salman

46.

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)

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

50.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence