Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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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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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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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 time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Pericles

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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