Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.