Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Macleish, Archibald

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lord Acton

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.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

10.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

12.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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.

19.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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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.

25.

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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.