Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Mandela, Nelson

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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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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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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

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

Voltaire

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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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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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

44.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

45.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Milton, John

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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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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