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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Clinton, Bill

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

10.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

11.

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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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

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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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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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

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

Lenin

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

29.

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

Washington, George

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Drummond, William

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.