Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Pericles

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

James, William

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Voltaire

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

10.

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

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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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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

14.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

15.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

16.

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

William Hazlitt

17.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Washington, George

24.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

27.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

35.

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

Epictetus

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

Drummond, William

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

46.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.