Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

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

Lord Acton

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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

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

Voltaire

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Herbert, Frank

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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.