Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Freedom

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Horace

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Burke, Edmund

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire