Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

- Macleish, Archibald

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Voltaire

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

13.

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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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.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

16.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

18.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

19.

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

Scott, Hazel

20.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

Pike, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

30.

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

31.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

32.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

39.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

44.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

45.

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

Pericles

46.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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

49.

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

La Follette, Suzanne