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

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

Persius

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Terence

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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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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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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.