Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Persius

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

Washington, George

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Bellin, Gita

13.

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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Horace

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

35.

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

Mckern, Leo

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

Washington, George

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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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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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Hague, Frank

44.

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

Luther, Martin

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.