Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Herbert, Frank

18.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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)

20.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

21.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sieyes, Abbe

27.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

36.

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.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

38.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

40.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Scott, Hazel

44.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

45.

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 hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

47.

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

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

La Follette, Suzanne