Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

- Scott, Hazel

Best Quotes about Freedom

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Madonna

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

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.

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

16.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

17.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

20.

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.

21.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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

24.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

26.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

27.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

32.

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

Horace

33.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Washington, George

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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

39.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

42.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

43.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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.