Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

10.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

11.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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 hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

Epictetus

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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 the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

31.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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

Silesius, Angelus

36.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Pound, Ezra

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Mandela, Nelson

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Adams, John

44.

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

Voltaire

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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

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

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

Washington, George

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

Washington, George