Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Aristotle

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

10.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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.

15.

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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

19.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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.

28.

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

Clinton, Bill

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lord Acton

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.