Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Persius

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brown, Norman O.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Voltaire

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

James, William

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lord Acton

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.