Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

- Yeltsin, Boris

Best Quotes about Freedom

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Rushdie, Salman

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Washington, George

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Orwell, George

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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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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.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Madonna

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Ruskin, John

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Pericles

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Malcolm X

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Hubbard, Elbert