Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Mckern, Leo

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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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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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

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

Horace

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

James, William

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Madonna

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.