Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

12.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Milton, John

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Epictetus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Hoffer, Eric

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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