Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lenin

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

12.

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

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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

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

Terence

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

Pike, Albert

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

Mckern, Leo

18.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

19.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

21.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

23.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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.

25.

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

Henry, Patrick

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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.

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

Hamilton, Edith

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

29.

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

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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

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

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

Scott, Hazel

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

39.

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

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Washington, George

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

William Hazlitt

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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

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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.

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

Voltaire

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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