Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Sieyes, Abbe

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Milton, John

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Voltaire

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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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 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

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

Persius

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Voltaire

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

Terence

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.