Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

- Alan Dean Foster

Best Quotes about Freedom

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Macleish, Archibald

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.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Persius

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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 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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Pound, Ezra

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Terence

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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.

37.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

George, David Lloyd

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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You can only be free if I am free.