Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hill, Christopher

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Luther, Martin

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

10.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

14.

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

15.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

16.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

18.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

21.

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

22.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

26.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Washington, George

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

36.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

37.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

41.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.