Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Orwell, George

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

Epictetus

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

Lawana Blackwell

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Clinton, Bill

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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 that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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 is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mckern, Leo

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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 the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.