Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voltaire

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pike, Albert

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

Drummond, William

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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