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

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

James, William

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

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

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

La Follette, Suzanne

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Washington, George

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Byron, Lord

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lenin

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

Epictetus

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Epictetus

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

Persius

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

William Hazlitt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard