Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

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

Pike, Albert

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Bellin, Gita

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Clinton, Bill

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Durant, William 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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus