Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Freedom

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American Journalist, Television

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader

Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe’er contented, never know.
William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer

Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
Bill Clinton (b.1946) American Head of State, Lawyer, Public Speaker

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) American Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word “freedom” out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

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.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

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 (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American Historian, Academic, Attorney, Writer

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.
Unknown

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna (b.1958) American Pop Singer, Actress

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.
Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

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.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.
John O’Donohue (1956–2008) Irish Priest, Hegelian Philosopher

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Unknown

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
Edward Everett (1794–1865) American Politician, Scholar

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

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