Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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 is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Pound, Ezra

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

11.

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

12.

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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Dass, Ram

16.

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

18.

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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

20.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

24.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

25.

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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

30.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Silesius, Angelus

35.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pericles

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