Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about 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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Pound, Ezra

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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.

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

Ewer, W. N.

10.

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

Horace

11.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

13.

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

Dass, Ram

14.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

17.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

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

21.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

24.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

25.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

28.

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.

29.

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

Washington, George

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

Scott, Hazel

31.

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

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

Mckern, Leo

35.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

Epictetus

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

Hill, Christopher

42.

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

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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

44.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

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

Durant, William J.

46.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.