Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Freedom

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Voltaire

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Malcolm X

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

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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.

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.

10.

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

11.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

14.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

15.

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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

20.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Reagan, Ronald

24.

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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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

28.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

34.

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

39.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

42.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset