Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Drummond, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Epictetus

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voltaire

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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, 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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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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