Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Horace

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Bellin, Gita