Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Horace

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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 a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Terence

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Durant, William J.

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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