Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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.

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

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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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

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

Malcolm X

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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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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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.