Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

- Ewer, W. N.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Ruskin, John

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

11.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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 who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

George, David Lloyd

44.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire