Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Drummond, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Silesius, Angelus

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Malcolm X

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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

29.

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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Patricia Sampson

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Voltaire

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence