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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Madonna

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

12.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

13.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von