Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Ruskin, John

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Pericles

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Terence

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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

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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