Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Patricia Sampson

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.

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

James, William

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Washington, George

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

Aristotle

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

19.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Clinton, Bill

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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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

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

30.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Herbert, Frank

32.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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