Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Hamilton, Edith

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Baldwin, James

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

Silesius, Angelus

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

11.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Bellin, Gita

13.

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

15.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

18.

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

Pike, Albert

19.

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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

21.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Lord Acton

25.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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.

29.

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

Malcolm X

30.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

32.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

37.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

41.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank