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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Voltaire

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Albert Einstein

11.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Persius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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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.

23.

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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Durant, William J.

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

James, William

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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.

37.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

38.

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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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 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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Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

46.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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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