Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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 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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Durant, William J.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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.

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Washington, George

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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