Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Burke, Edmund

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Pericles

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

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

Malcolm X

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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 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 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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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Horace

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.