Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Voltaire

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

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

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

Clinton, Bill

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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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 right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Stone, I. F.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Dass, Ram

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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 is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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