Motivational Quotes

Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bellin, Gita

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

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

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.

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

Pike, Albert

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

Horace

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

12.

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

Malcolm X

13.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

Brown, Norman O.

15.

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

Reagan, Ronald

17.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

18.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

19.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

20.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

22.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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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

25.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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.

27.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

28.

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.

29.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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.

32.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

36.

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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

40.

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 is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

43.

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

Voltaire

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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