Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Terence

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

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

11.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

14.

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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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

17.

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

18.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Pericles

20.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

21.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

22.

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

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

30.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

31.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

33.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

34.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

35.

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

36.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman