Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Drummond, William

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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

Voltaire

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pound, Ezra

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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