Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Luther, Martin

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bellin, Gita

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Aristotle

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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

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Voltaire

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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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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