Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Voltaire

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

William Hazlitt

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

Clinton, Bill

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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