Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Lawana Blackwell

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

William Hazlitt

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

17.

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

Pike, Albert

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Lord Acton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

James, William

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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 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

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

30.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Pericles

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Epictetus

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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 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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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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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

48.

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.

49.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.