Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Stone, W. Clement

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Blum, Leon

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Burke, Edmund

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Milton, John

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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