Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Albert Einstein

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

10.

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

Terence

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

15.

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

16.

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)

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Christopher

19.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

20.

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

21.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

22.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

23.

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

24.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

26.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

29.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

30.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

33.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

35.

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

37.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

38.

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.

39.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

40.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

42.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

43.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

44.

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

45.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

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

Hamilton, Edith

47.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

49.

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

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

Silesius, Angelus