Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lenin

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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

11.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

12.

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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Washington, George

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Scott, Hazel

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Lord Acton

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny