Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

- La Follette, Suzanne

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Pericles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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.

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

Clinton, Bill

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Pike, Albert

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James