Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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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 have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Pericles

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Albert Einstein

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Persius

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Epictetus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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