Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

- Scott, Hazel

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ewer, W. N.

12.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Voltaire

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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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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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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

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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

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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