Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Orwell, George

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Washington, George

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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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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

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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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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Dass, Ram

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Durant, William J.

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Persius

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund