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 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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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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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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Dass, Ram

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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 the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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 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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.