Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pericles

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bellin, Gita

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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

Epictetus

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

James, William

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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

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

Washington, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.