Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lord Acton

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.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

11.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

12.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Epictetus

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

Scott, Hazel

28.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Voltaire

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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.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Adams, John

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Tagore, Rabindranath