Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Blum, Leon

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

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

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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 open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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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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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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