Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pike, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

La Follette, Suzanne

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

10.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Lenin

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

19.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pike, Albert

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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