Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

- Henry, Patrick

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Hill, Christopher

12.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

25.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Washington, George

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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

40.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

45.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

46.

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

Durant, William J.

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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

Dass, Ram

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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