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

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

Terence

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

Herbert, Frank

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

William Hazlitt

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Mckern, Leo

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

15.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

16.

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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

18.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

23.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

31.

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

32.

Browne, Harry

33.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

34.

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

Quayle, Dan

35.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

36.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

37.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Horace

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

44.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny