Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

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

Quayle, Dan

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Patricia Sampson

10.

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

11.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

18.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Pericles

20.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

21.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

22.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

24.

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

25.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

26.

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

Scott, Hazel

27.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Dass, Ram

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.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

35.

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.

36.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

William Hazlitt

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

39.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

40.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Blum, Leon

46.

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.

47.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Hamilton, Edith

50.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.