Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Henry, Patrick

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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 a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Durant, William J.

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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

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lenin

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich