Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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Best Quotes about Freedom

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pericles

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

11.

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

Terence

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Orwell, George

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

Horace

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Maistre, Joseph De

33.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Ruskin, John

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny