Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mckern, Leo

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

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

Washington, George

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

George, David Lloyd

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Horace

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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)

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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