Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Clinton, Bill

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pericles

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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.

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pike, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Herbert, Frank

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Drummond, William

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.