Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Freedom

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Washington, George

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Dass, Ram

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Clinton, Bill

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Reagan, Ronald

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We are free to yield to truth.