Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bellin, Gita

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

18.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

19.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

21.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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 man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

39.

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

William Hazlitt

41.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

42.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

44.

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

Clinton, Bill

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.