Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Aristotle

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Voltaire

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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

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

33.

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

Horace

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

Persius

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

Bellin, Gita

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Epictetus

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Lenin

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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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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace