Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Lenin

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

Malcolm X

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

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.

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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Washington, George

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

Voltaire

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William