Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Silesius, Angelus

13.

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

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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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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

20.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

22.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

24.

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epictetus

28.

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 the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

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

31.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Luther, Martin

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

Drummond, William

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

39.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.