Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

13.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

15.

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

Ewer, W. N.

16.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

17.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

18.

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.

19.

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

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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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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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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Clinton, Bill

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Greer, Germaine

32.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Voltaire

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

Terence

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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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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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

45.

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

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

48.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Maistre, Joseph De

50.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton