Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Mckern, Leo

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.

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

Pericles

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

Ewer, W. N.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

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.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

George, David Lloyd

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hill, Christopher

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

25.

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

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Malcolm X

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Terence

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Milton, John

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Adams, John

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Byron, Lord

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt