Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Clinton, Bill

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Pike, Albert

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Burke, Edmund

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Pound, Ezra

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Terence

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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