Motivational Quotes

Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

10.

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

Lord Acton

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

18.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

19.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

30.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

Quayle, Dan

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Terence

47.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin