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

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

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Silesius, Angelus

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

11.

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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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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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

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Epictetus

25.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

28.

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

Aristotle

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

41.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Washington, George

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

Pericles

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.