Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

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.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Pascal, Blaise

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

13.

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 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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

16.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Bellin, Gita

18.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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

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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

23.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

24.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

25.

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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

30.

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

Silesius, Angelus

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Malcolm X

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

Voltaire

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

44.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

46.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

48.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne