Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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.

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

Washington, George

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Epictetus

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

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Greer, Germaine

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pound, Ezra

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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.

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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 traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt