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

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

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.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Orwell, George

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

14.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Lord Acton

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Epictetus

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.