Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thomas Jefferson

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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.

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

10.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Madonna

18.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

25.

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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

36.

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

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

Scott, Hazel

40.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

43.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

44.

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

Albert Einstein

46.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von