Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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

Terence

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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He who is brave is free.

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George