Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Washington, George

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Byron, Lord

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Madonna

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Persius

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Lenin

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Voltaire

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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 means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Aristotle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bellin, Gita

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Durant, William J.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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