Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Chomsky, Noam

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Washington, George

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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)

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

Horace

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

11.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

15.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

16.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Epictetus

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

32.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

33.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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.

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

43.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Pike, Albert