Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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 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

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

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Stone, W. Clement

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Lord Acton

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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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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

21.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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 who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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.

27.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

28.

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 only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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