Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Drummond, William

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.