Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

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.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

Pericles

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

11.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

14.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Washington, George

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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.

25.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

31.

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

32.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

40.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

41.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

42.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

43.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

50.

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.