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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Aristotle

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

La Follette, Suzanne

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Lord Acton

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

Hoffer, Eric

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

14.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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 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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lenin

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.