Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about 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.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

William Hazlitt

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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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.

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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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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

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Durant, William J.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Washington, George

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Orwell, George

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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