Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Freedom

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Epictetus

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

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

10.

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

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

16.

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

17.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

19.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

27.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

28.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

29.

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

Lord Acton

30.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

31.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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

34.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

36.

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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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

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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

43.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.