Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Henry, Patrick

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Hoffer, Eric

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

10.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

11.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

15.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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

18.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Durant, William J.

20.

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

Quayle, Dan

21.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.

23.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

24.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

25.

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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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.

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

28.

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

Pericles

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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

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

Lord Acton

33.

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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

35.

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

Orwell, George

38.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

42.

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.

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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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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

45.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

47.

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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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

49.

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

James, William

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry