Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pericles

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

Blum, Leon

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Lenin

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

23.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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 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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Henry, Patrick

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Terence

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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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