Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Stone, W. Clement

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chomsky, Noam

10.

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

11.

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

Dass, Ram

12.

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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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

21.

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

Voltaire

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

25.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

26.

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

Quayle, Dan

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

38.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

39.

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

Pike, Albert

40.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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 the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda