Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

- William Hazlitt

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Clinton, Bill

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

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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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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 only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

18.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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 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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Pericles

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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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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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.

49.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin