Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Washington, George

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Horace

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Voltaire

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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