Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

La Follette, Suzanne

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Ruskin, John

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Persius

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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