Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lawana Blackwell

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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.

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

23.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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 most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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

Aristotle

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

Malcolm X

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Mandela, Nelson