Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Voltaire

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

12.

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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

15.

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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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.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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

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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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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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

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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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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

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

Milton, John