Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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

11.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

12.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

13.

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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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

17.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Orwell, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Voltaire

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.