Motivational Quotes

Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Washington, George

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Terence

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Byron, Lord

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

Quayle, Dan

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

33.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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.