Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Sevareid, Eric

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

10.

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

Persius

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

13.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

14.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

15.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

18.

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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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Hazlitt

22.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Dass, Ram

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Orwell, George

31.

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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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

33.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Henry, Patrick

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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 are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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He who is brave is free.