Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Lord Acton

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

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Luther, Martin

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

11.

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

Washington, George

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Orwell, 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 greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Epictetus

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

44.

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

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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