Motivational Quotes

Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Lumsden, Marshall

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Hubbard, Elbert

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

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.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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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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 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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Drummond, William

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

18.

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

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

Pike, Albert

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Pericles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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