Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Milton, John

10.

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

11.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

15.

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

Burke, Edmund

16.

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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

18.

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

19.

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

Washington, George

20.

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.

21.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

22.

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

23.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

24.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

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

28.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Adams, John

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

33.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

34.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Voltaire

36.

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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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

42.

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

43.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Byron, Lord

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

48.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

49.

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

Persius