Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

Henry, Patrick

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

25.

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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Terence

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Albert Einstein

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Adams, John