Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

11.

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

12.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

13.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

15.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Macleish, Archibald

17.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Durant, William J.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

33.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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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

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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 look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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.