Motivational Quotes

Freedom

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Walker, Alice

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Stone, I. F.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Hazlitt

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

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

Durant, William J.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 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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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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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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