Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Malcolm X

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

Patricia Sampson

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Johnson, Samuel

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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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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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 the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Malcolm X

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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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

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von