Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Dyer, Wayne

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

James, William

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Byron, Lord

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Terence

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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.

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Voltaire

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

William Hazlitt