Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Mckern, Leo

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Horace

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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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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Hill, Christopher

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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.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Dass, Ram

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

Terence

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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

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

Scott, Hazel

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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.