Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Milton, John

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Orwell, George

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Voltaire

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Washington, George

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von