Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Madonna

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

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Patricia Sampson

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.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

10.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

11.

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

Epictetus

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Albert Einstein

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

James, William

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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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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

20.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

29.

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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Pike, Albert

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

44.

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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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