Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Buscaglia, Leo

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Epictetus

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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

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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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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Drummond, William

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Cicero, Marcus T.