Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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

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

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

Epictetus

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pike, Albert

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

Stone, I. F.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Pericles

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

William Hazlitt

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Washington, George

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin