Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pound, Ezra

Horace

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

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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

15.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

16.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

17.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

18.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

19.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Orwell, George

22.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

27.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

28.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

33.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

34.

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

Madonna

35.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

Buscaglia, 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.

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

Terence

45.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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