Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Pound, Ezra

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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, 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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Aristotle

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Ruskin, John

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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

Persius

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

May, Rollo

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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

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Lord Acton

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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