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

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Aristotle

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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 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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Washington, George

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Terence

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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 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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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 only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith