Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Washington, George

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Madonna

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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 is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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