Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

11.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

20.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Voltaire

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Lenin

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

William Hazlitt

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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

44.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Washington, George

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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