Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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

Lord Acton

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

James, William

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo