Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Herbert, Frank

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.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

Pike, Albert

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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)

11.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Stone, W. Clement

16.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Aristotle

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

Quayle, Dan

24.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

29.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

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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

41.

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.

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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