Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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)

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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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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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Orwell, George

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Malcolm X

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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

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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