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

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

Dass, Ram

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Malcolm X

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

10.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

William Hazlitt

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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 to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.