Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Washington, George

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Madonna

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

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

William Hazlitt

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rushdie, Salman

43.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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

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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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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Lord Acton