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

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

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

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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

Mandela, Nelson

12.

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

Orwell, George

13.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

14.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

15.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

16.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

19.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

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

Durant, William J.

28.

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

29.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

33.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

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

Lord Acton

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

42.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

45.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

46.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton