Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

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.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin

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

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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

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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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 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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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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 hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Orwell, George

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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