Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Clinton, Bill

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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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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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.