Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

11.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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 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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Bellin, Gita

17.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Horace

20.

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.

21.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

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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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

27.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

28.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

29.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

30.

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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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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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

34.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

35.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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 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

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

40.

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

Silesius, Angelus

41.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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.

43.

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

Pound, Ezra

45.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

Orwell, George

50.

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