Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sevareid, Eric

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Pound, Ezra

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

James, William

12.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Durant, William J.

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Horace

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

Ruskin, John

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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.

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

Persius

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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