Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Washington, George

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Washington, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Adams, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Pericles

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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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 is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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