Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Silesius, Angelus

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hamilton, Edith

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

12.

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.

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

18.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

31.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epictetus

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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

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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

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.