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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Persius

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

Pericles

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Horace

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

Pike, Albert

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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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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Epictetus

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lord Acton

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

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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 prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Epictetus

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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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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca