Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Lenin

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Washington, George

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Persius

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

Washington, George

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von