Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Bellin, Gita

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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 the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

James, William