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

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lenin

10.

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

11.

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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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 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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

21.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Epictetus

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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

Terence

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

Herbert, Frank

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Washington, George

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Lord Acton

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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

45.

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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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster