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

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

Pike, Albert

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

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

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Voltaire

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Milton, John

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Drummond, William