Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bellin, Gita

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Terence

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

May, Rollo

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster