Motivational Quotes

Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Horace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Clinton, Bill

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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 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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

14.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pericles

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

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

Byron, Lord

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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