Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Freedom

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 only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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 Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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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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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 the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Terence

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Drummond, William

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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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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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.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Orwell, George