Motivational Quotes

Freedom

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Macleish, Archibald

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Epictetus

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

10.

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

Dass, Ram

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

18.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

William Hazlitt

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Burke, Edmund

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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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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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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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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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