Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Milton, John

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Epictetus

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quayle, Dan

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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

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.