Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adler, Mortimer J.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Orwell, George

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

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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.

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Drummond, William

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

19.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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.

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

Epictetus

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

37.

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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mandela, Nelson

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ruskin, John

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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

49.

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham