Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

- Barbara Hall

Best Quotes about Freedom

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Madonna

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.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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.

Hamilton, Edith

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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.

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

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

Ewer, W. N.

25.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Epictetus

27.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Drummond, William

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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