Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Albert Einstein

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

Persius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malcolm X

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stone, I. F.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Pound, Ezra

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques