Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

Hill, Christopher

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Scott, Hazel

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

11.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

16.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Burke, Edmund

18.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Drummond, William

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Clinton, Bill

25.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

32.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Greer, Germaine

45.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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.