Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Pericles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bellin, Gita

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Ruskin, John

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

Persius

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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

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson