Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Blum, Leon

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

Voltaire

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

Byron, Lord

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik