Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Blum, Leon

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Sang Kyu Shin

10.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

13.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

15.

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.

16.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

17.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

21.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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

23.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

28.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

36.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

41.

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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Malcolm X

44.

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

Scott, Hazel

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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