Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Drummond, William

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.