Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

Orwell, George

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Malcolm X

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

Ewer, W. N.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

10.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Washington, George

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

Drummond, William

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Lord Acton

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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 are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Pound, Ezra

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

34.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

37.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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

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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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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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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Malcolm X

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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