Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Orwell, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Mckern, Leo

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

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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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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

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

34.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

41.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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 is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

49.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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