Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Sieyes, Abbe

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Washington, George

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

30.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

42.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Thomas Jefferson

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon