Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Scott, Hazel

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

May, Rollo

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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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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

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Hague, Frank

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lord Acton

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.