Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Clinton, Bill

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence