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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

La Follette, Suzanne

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Epictetus

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

11.

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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Ewer, W. N.

17.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Voltaire

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Hazlitt

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, 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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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 not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.