Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Washington, George

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Drummond, William

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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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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Lord Acton

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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 primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Mckern, Leo

19.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

31.

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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, 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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides