Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hill, Christopher

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

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

12.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

13.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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.

20.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

21.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

22.

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

23.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

24.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

25.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

26.

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

28.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

29.

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.

30.

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

Scott, Hazel

31.

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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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

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

James, William

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Madonna

40.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

41.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

42.

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.

43.

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

Malcolm X

45.

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

Blum, Leon

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.