Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Freedom

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

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.

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

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Horace

10.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

11.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Adams, John

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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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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 not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Voltaire

19.

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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

22.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

23.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

24.

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

Pike, Albert

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aristotle

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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.

29.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Johnson, Samuel

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