Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Adams, John

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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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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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

28.

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

Voltaire

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milton, John

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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 are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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