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

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

Horace

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Lord Acton

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

12.

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

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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.

15.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

17.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

18.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

20.

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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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

22.

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

Henry, Patrick

23.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

24.

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

Washington, George

25.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Blum, Leon

28.

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

Washington, George

29.

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

30.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

31.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

40.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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.

43.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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.

48.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren