Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Clinton, Bill

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

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Mckern, Leo

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

William Hazlitt

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

10.

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

11.

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, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

13.

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

Scott, Hazel

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Voltaire

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

27.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

28.

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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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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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.

31.

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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Bellin, Gita

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Pascal, Blaise

47.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell