Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Durant, William J.

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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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

11.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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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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 the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Persius

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

26.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Orwell, George

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

35.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Frank

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Malcolm X

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

44.

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

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.