Motivational Quotes

Freedom

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Walker, Alice

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Persius

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

James, William

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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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pericles

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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

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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 opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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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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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Washington, George

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton