Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

18.

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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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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

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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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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

28.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

29.

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

James, William

30.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

33.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

37.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

42.

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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles