Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Macleish, Archibald

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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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 only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Drummond, William

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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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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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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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Persius

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.