Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

- Voltaire

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

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.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

10.

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

11.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

12.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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

14.

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

Drummond, William

16.

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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

18.

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

19.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

20.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

21.

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

Malcolm X

22.

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.

23.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

24.

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

25.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

26.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

Ewer, W. N.

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

31.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Persius

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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

45.

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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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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Orwell, George