Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stone, W. Clement

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Pericles

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

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

Blum, Leon

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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 is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lord Acton

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein