Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Greer, Germaine

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.

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

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Malcolm X

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

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

Madonna

11.

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pericles

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Washington, George

34.

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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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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 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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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