Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Adams, John

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

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

10.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Pound, Ezra

13.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

16.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

17.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

21.

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

Malcolm X

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Washington, George

25.

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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mandela, Nelson

28.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

29.

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

Ewer, W. N.

30.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

Burke, Edmund

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

35.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

43.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George