Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hill, Christopher

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

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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Blum, Leon

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

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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.

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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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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Reagan, Ronald

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.