Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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.

12.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Washington, George

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

29.

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

Quayle, Dan

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Pericles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

45.

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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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

William Hazlitt