Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pike, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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 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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Aristotle

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques