Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Luther, Martin

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.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Voltaire

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Milton, John

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Horace

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

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Voltaire

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Quayle, Dan

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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.

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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