Motivational Quotes

Freedom

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Terence

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

Pike, Albert

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Horace

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Silesius, Angelus

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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.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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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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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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