Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Milton, John

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

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

James, William

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.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Herbert, Frank

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

37.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Washington, George

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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.

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb