Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Ewer, W. N.

11.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

12.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

13.

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

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

18.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

19.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

20.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

22.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

Blum, Leon

24.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

26.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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.

28.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

31.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

32.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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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.

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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

38.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sang Kyu Shin

45.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

47.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.

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

Scott, Hazel