Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Orwell, George

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Horace

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Washington, George

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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pound, Ezra

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Voltaire

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Voltaire

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

William Hazlitt

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Byron, Lord

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Dass, Ram

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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