Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Washington, George

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

Lord Acton

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

18.

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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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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 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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

27.

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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Hazlitt

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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 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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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.