Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thomas Jefferson

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Terence

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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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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 our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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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

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.