Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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.

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Malcolm X

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

Milton, John

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Pike, Albert

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Persius

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Herbert, Frank

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles