Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

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

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

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Drummond, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

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

Terence

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Albert Einstein

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

Horace

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

39.

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 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

41.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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.