Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

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

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

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

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Pike, Albert

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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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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.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

16.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Lenin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

28.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

29.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Adams, John

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John