Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Epictetus

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Epictetus

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

13.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

17.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

19.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

21.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

23.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

25.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

26.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

28.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

30.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

31.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

38.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pericles

43.

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

44.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

45.

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

46.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

48.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles