Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

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

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

Burke, Edmund

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Washington, George

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

James, William

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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.