Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Pericles

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

Orwell, George

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Byron, Lord

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

10.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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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.

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Burke, Edmund

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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.

22.

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

Stone, I. F.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Durant, William J.

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

46.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.