Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Lawana Blackwell

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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 is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Burke, Edmund