Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Lord Acton

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Malcolm X

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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.

10.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Henry, Patrick

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Burke, Edmund

14.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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