Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Adams, John

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Mandela, Nelson

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

11.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

15.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

19.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Persius

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Pericles

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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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

30.

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

Pike, Albert

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Washington, George

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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.

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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

38.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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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.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Milton, John

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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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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

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

49.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

50.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon