Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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

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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 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

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert