Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lenin

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

11.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

12.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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 is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Terence

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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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

27.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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