Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Maistre, Joseph De

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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 suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Bellin, Gita

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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.

21.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Macleish, Archibald

42.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Voltaire