Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sang Kyu Shin

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ewer, W. N.

11.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Scott, Hazel

22.

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.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Voltaire

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

Terence

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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