Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Byron, Lord

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Voltaire

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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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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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 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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott, Hazel

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt