Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Quayle, Dan

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Adams, John

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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 is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Epictetus

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

James, William

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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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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

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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