Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pike, Albert

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Washington, George

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