Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Reagan, Ronald

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

19.

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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

47.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Durant, William J.