Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

May, Rollo

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Epictetus

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

Horace

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Epictetus

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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

14.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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 only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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

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

Durant, William J.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rushdie, Salman