Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Mckern, Leo

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Voltaire

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Washington, George

46.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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