Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Albert Einstein

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

13.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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

15.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

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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

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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

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.

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

Aristotle

21.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

22.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

23.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

24.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

Terence

31.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

35.

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

Washington, George

36.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

37.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

38.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

41.

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

42.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

46.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

47.

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

Hill, Christopher

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Silesius, Angelus

50.

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