Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

- Mckern, Leo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Pascal, Blaise

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ruskin, John

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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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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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.

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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 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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pike, Albert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Drummond, William

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blum, Leon

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

Sevareid, Eric