Motivational Quotes

Freedom

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pike, Albert

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

Horace

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Persius

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Aristotle

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia