Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

10.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

11.

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

12.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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 slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

17.

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

Pericles

18.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

20.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

21.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

22.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

30.

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

Adams, John

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

34.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

40.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

43.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

44.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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

46.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich