Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mckern, Leo

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Pound, Ezra

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Epictetus

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Madonna

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire