Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

James, William

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

11.

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

16.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Horace

18.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Clinton, Bill

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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.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.