Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Voltaire

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Washington, George

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

May, Rollo

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lord Acton

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.