Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

29.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Clinton, Bill

32.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

38.

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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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.

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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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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Voltaire

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

Adams, John

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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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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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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.