Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lord Acton

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Sang Kyu Shin

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

10.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

11.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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

14.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

20.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

31.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

38.

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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

41.

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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Blum, Leon