Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

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

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.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

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

Malcolm X

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Aristotle

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Washington, George

16.

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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

18.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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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

21.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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

32.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

33.

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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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

36.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques