Motivational Quotes

Freedom

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

- Madriaga, Salvador De

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Pericles

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

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

12.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Milton, John

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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.

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lawana Blackwell