Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Burke, Edmund

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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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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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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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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

29.

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

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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.

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Blum, Leon

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Thoreau, Henry David