Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Terence

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Washington, George

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath