Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Washington, George

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.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Voltaire

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Pike, Albert

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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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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Hazlitt