Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Washington, George

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Pericles

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

Dass, Ram

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Malcolm X

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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.