Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

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

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

James, William

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Epictetus

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Herbert, Frank

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Adler, Mortimer J.