Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Kipling, Rudyard

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Clinton, Bill

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

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pericles

11.

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

12.

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

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

Horace

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lord Acton

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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

27.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

29.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Washington, George

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

35.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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