Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Madonna

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Epictetus

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

11.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

18.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

19.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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.

25.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Voltaire

27.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

30.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Pound, Ezra

33.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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)

35.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

36.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

37.

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

38.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Dass, Ram

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

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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.