Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bhagavad Gita

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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 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.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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 is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Madonna

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

40.

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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul