Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horace

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pike, Albert

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bhagavad Gita