Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

George, David Lloyd

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Herbert, Frank

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Washington, George

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Drummond, William

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.