Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ewer, W. N.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Scott, Hazel

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

Adams, John

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Adams, John

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Madonna

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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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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Washington, George

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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 very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epictetus

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

Persius

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques