Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Clinton, Bill

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Epictetus

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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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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 must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Durant, William J.

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius