Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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.

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Pericles

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Malcolm X

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ruskin, John

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

Washington, George

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

Lord Acton

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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

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

Drummond, William

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Washington, George

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Ewer, W. N.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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