Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Voltaire

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.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

William Hazlitt

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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 is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lenin

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

Pike, Albert

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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

30.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Quayle, Dan

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Clinton, Bill

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.