Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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 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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Persius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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 can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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