Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

- Thomson, Linda

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Stone, I. F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Washington, George

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

Luther, Martin

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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 but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Adams, John

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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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawana Blackwell

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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.

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Aristotle

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Hill, Christopher