Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Freedom

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Orwell, George

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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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

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

Pericles

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Orwell, George