Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Drummond, William

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Epictetus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Dass, Ram

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

Orwell, George

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

Baruch, Bernard M.