Motivational Quotes

Freedom

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

19.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

27.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

33.

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

34.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Hazlitt

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)