Motivational Quotes

Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Lumsden, Marshall

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Dass, Ram

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Washington, George

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

11.

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

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

17.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

20.

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

21.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

24.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

William Hazlitt

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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.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

33.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

35.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

39.

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 sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

42.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

43.

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

44.

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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, 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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster