Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Washington, George

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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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

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

Adams, John

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A forest bird never wants a cage.