Motivational Quotes

Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Lumsden, Marshall

Best Quotes about Freedom

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Thomas Jefferson

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pound, Ezra

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

43.

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

Horace

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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