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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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

William Hazlitt

11.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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 open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

20.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Pericles

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

Pound, Ezra

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Lord Acton

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

32.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

34.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Ruskin, John

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horace

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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