Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

George, David Lloyd

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Mckern, Leo

10.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

11.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

12.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

13.

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

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

18.

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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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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.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maistre, Joseph De