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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

William Hazlitt

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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The saving man becomes the free man.