Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Horace

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

10.

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

Mckern, Leo

11.

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

Pericles

12.

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.

13.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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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.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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

33.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Herbert, Frank

49.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton