Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Mckern, Leo

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Washington, George

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Voltaire

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

Durant, William J.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

11.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

21.

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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Quayle, Dan

32.

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

Washington, George

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny