Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Milton, John

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.

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

Patricia Sampson

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Voltaire

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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

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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Mandela, Nelson

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.