Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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)

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoffer, Eric

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Adams, John

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

May, Rollo

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Reagan, Ronald

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Epictetus

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Burke, Edmund

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.