Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Epictetus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Washington, George

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

Malcolm X

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Horace

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

Lord Acton

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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.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.