Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

- Hamilton, Edith

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lenin

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sang Kyu Shin

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

10.

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

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

21.

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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Stone, I. F.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.