Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

- Macleish, Archibald

Best Quotes about Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

11.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Scott, Hazel

13.

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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

25.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Pericles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

42.

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

43.

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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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

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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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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.