Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Byron, Lord

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Horace

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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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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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Aristotle

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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 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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Stone, W. Clement