Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Madriaga, Salvador De

Best Quotes about Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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.

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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

Aristotle

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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Orwell, George

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Luther, Martin

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Pericles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris