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

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

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

11.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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 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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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

20.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

30.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

31.

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Durant, William J.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Burke, Edmund

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

49.

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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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