Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Blum, Leon

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ewer, W. N.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

10.

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

Pericles

11.

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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Voltaire

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Drummond, William

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Terence

25.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

35.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

39.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

40.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Luther, Martin

49.

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt