Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pound, Ezra

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

10.

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

Bellin, Gita

11.

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

Chomsky, Noam

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

27.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Dass, Ram

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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

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Mckern, Leo

34.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

37.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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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.

44.

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

Pike, Albert

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Patricia Sampson

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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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.