Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pascal, Blaise

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Voltaire

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

May, Rollo

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

10.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

12.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

13.

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

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Lord Acton

16.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

17.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

20.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

22.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

25.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bellin, Gita

29.

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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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 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

32.

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

33.

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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

38.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Silesius, Angelus

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.