Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Durant, William J.

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

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

Hamilton, Edith

15.

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

Washington, George

16.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

18.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

19.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

20.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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

24.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

27.

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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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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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

30.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

31.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

37.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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.

40.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

42.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

43.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

44.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

48.

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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