Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Mandela, Nelson

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Voltaire

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Persius

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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 the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Drummond, William

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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 is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X