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

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

Pericles

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

Hill, Christopher

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

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

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Dass, Ram

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther