Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Voltaire

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Pericles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Dass, Ram

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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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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Horace

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

Clinton, Bill

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Voltaire

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Terence