Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

- Sahib, The Siri Singh

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Orwell, George

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Macleish, Archibald

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

10.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

15.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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.

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Horace

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pike, Albert

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

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Drummond, William

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

James, William

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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

43.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd