Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Patricia Sampson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lawana Blackwell

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.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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)

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Chomsky, Noam

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Voltaire

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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.

14.

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

Aristotle

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Pericles

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Burke, Edmund

28.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Epictetus

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel