Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ruskin, John

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lenin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Byron, Lord

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.