Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Clinton, Bill

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Malcolm X

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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.

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

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

Drummond, William

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

34.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Persius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Dass, Ram

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 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.

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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