Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Clinton, Bill

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.