Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Clinton, Bill

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.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

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

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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 last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Madonna

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Burke, Edmund

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.