Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Silesius, Angelus

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

James, William

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Malcolm X

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Malcolm X

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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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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.

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

Pericles

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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

44.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.