Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

11.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

29.

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

30.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

34.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Durant, William J.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George