Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Blum, Leon

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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 true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Orwell, George

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

Pericles

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

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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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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

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.