Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Herbert, Frank

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Epictetus

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for 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.

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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 true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Pound, Ezra

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.