Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bhagavad Gita

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Horace

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

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

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Voltaire

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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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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.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Scott, Hazel

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

Milton, John

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

34.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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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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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

40.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Luther, Martin

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.