Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Herbert, Frank

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ruskin, John

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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

11.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

18.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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.

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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 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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

47.

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.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu