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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

10.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

15.

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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Clinton, Bill

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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 sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Terence

29.

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.

30.

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Patricia Sampson

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

James, William

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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 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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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.