Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Henry, Patrick

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.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Epictetus

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Pericles

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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