Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Malcolm X

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

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Drummond, William

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

32.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh