Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Freedom

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Durant, William J.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

10.

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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Voltaire

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

Washington, George

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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.

30.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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