Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Voltaire

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

10.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

11.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

12.

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

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

15.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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

18.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

19.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

20.

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

Pike, Albert

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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

22.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

26.

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

27.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

29.

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

30.

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

Adams, John

31.

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

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

42.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

44.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Pound, Ezra

48.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

49.

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