Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Epictetus

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Madonna

11.

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

Orwell, George

12.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Orwell, George

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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