Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bhagavad Gita

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Lord Acton

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

Drummond, William

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

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

Adams, John

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Scott, Hazel

32.

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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Ruskin, John

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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