Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

- Hanson, Virginia

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

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

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

Washington, George

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pike, Albert

12.

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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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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

17.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

18.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Washington, George

21.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

22.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

23.

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 is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Herbert, Frank

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

31.

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

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Drummond, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Brown, Norman O.

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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