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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

10.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

Voltaire

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Bellin, Gita

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Silesius, Angelus

27.

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.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

30.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

31.

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

Persius

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Drummond, William

35.

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

36.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

41.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Luther, Martin

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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