Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

- Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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.

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Terence

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Persius

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pericles

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

Pike, Albert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle