Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Aristotle

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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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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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

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

Epictetus

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick