Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

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

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

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Mckern, Leo

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Pound, Ezra

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Blum, Leon

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Macleish, Archibald