Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Ruskin, John

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Lord Acton

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Voltaire

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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

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

Blum, Leon

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Terence

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

Pericles