Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Voltaire

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

10.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

11.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

13.

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

Orwell, George

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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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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 very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Lenin

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

26.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

William Hazlitt

31.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

39.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

James, William

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace