Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Mckern, Leo

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.

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

Pericles

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

Malcolm X

11.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Voltaire

18.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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 man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Silesius, Angelus

26.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

27.

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.

28.

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

Madonna

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

31.

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

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

43.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bhagavad Gita

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Quayle, Dan