Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

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

Terence

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

Milton, John

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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Malcolm X

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Drummond, William

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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

45.

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

Pike, Albert

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

Clinton, Bill

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides