Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Washington, George

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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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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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.

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Orwell, George

17.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

18.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

19.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

22.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

27.

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.

28.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bellin, Gita

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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.