Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Mandela, Nelson

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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 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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise