Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Lord Acton

11.

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

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

George, David Lloyd

15.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

16.

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

17.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

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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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

24.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

28.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

29.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Malcolm X

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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 only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

39.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

43.

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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Persius

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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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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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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