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

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Hill, Christopher

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.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Pike, Albert

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Clinton, Bill

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.