Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Freedom

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

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

Dyer, Wayne

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

12.

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

Epictetus

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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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

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Epictetus

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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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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