Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Washington, George

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

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

Orwell, George

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

10.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

13.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

15.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

28.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

30.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Dass, Ram

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

Pike, Albert

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

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

40.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.