Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

10.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Washington, George

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

41.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

42.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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