Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

Persius

11.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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 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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Blum, Leon

25.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

26.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Malcolm X

28.

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

Washington, George

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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 the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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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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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 is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pericles

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

49.

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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin