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

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

Luther, Martin

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

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

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

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

10.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

11.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

19.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

20.

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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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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

28.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

31.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Drummond, William

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

Adams, John

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

43.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques