Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chomsky, Noam

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Ruskin, John

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

11.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Lenin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Epictetus

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Patricia Sampson

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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

29.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Voltaire

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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