Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Drummond, William

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

Orwell, George

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pericles

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

William Hazlitt

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Malcolm X

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.