Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Adams, John

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

12.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Pericles

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

Terence

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Persius

26.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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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

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

33.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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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.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

42.

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

Mckern, Leo

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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