Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Burke, Edmund

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Adams, John

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

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

10.

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

Orwell, George

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pericles

15.

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

16.

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

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

18.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

19.

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.

20.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

22.

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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

25.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hamilton, Edith

28.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

30.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

31.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

33.

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

Mckern, Leo

34.

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

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

44.

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

May, Rollo

45.

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

46.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

47.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

48.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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