Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Washington, George

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

Epictetus

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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 freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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

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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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 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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt