Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Mckern, Leo

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

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

11.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

13.

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

Chomsky, Noam

15.

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.

16.

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

Thomas Jefferson

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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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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

20.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

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

Dass, Ram

22.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

24.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

25.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

27.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

28.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

39.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

40.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

41.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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

46.

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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

48.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

49.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

50.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X