Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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.

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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

11.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Orwell, George

14.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Terence

16.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

18.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Pericles

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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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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

26.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Clinton, Bill

28.

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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sang Kyu Shin

34.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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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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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

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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

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.