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

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

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

Persius

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Horace

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

Terence

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

Burke, Edmund

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.