Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Horace

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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 quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Orwell, George

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

Stone, W. Clement

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence