Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

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

Voltaire

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Pericles

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Lenin

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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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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

29.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Bellin, Gita

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ewer, W. N.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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.

49.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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