Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

James, William

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

Adams, John

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Drummond, William

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Bhagavad Gita

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra