Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Hoffer, Eric

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

44.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Horace

49.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.