Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Sieyes, Abbe

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

10.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

11.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

12.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

James, William

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Terence

19.

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

20.

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

Persius

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin