Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

- Thomson, Linda

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Drummond, William

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

Clinton, Bill

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

18.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Milton, John

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

39.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

40.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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