Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Epictetus

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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Ruskin, John

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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.

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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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Mckern, Leo