Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Aristotle

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Washington, George

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Drummond, William

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Persius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Epictetus

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Herbert, Frank

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

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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