Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

10.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

11.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

25.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Drummond, William

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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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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

32.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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

Malcolm X

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

La Follette, Suzanne