Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

- Powell, Adam Clayton

Best Quotes about Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

10.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

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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

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Pike, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Clinton, Bill

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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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

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Drummond, William

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.