Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Best Quotes about Freedom

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Albert Einstein

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Pericles

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

Sackville-West, Vita

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

11.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

15.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

18.

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.

19.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

20.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

22.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

25.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

27.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

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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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.

30.

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

31.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

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

33.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

34.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

35.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Voltaire

37.

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

38.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Scott, Hazel

40.

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

George, David Lloyd

41.

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

42.

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

43.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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