Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

- Hill, Christopher

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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 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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Voltaire

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Byron, Lord

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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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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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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