Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

10.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Reagan, Ronald

15.

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

Persius

17.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

18.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

19.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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 not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Washington, George

31.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

33.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

34.

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

Drummond, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pericles

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Sevareid, Eric

40.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Voltaire

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle