Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

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

Orwell, George

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

10.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

11.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

12.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

13.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pericles

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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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

27.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

30.

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

Washington, George

31.

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.

32.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

33.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

34.

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

Persius

35.

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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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

37.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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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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 the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

42.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

47.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon