Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Persius

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

11.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

13.

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

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

19.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Epictetus

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott, Hazel

28.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Pericles

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

34.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Epictetus

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

39.

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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.