Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Washington, George

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Drummond, William

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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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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

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird