Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Reagan, Ronald

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

11.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Lord Acton

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

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Washington, George

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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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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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pericles