Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

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

Blum, Leon

10.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lenin

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

Clinton, Bill

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

45.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Orwell, George

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.