Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Patricia Sampson

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.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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.

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

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Horace

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

Dass, Ram

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

Silesius, Angelus

18.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

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

20.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

21.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

26.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

28.

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

Lenin

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Albert Einstein