Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Christopher

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Voltaire

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Voltaire

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Epictetus

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement