Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Washington, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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.

Henry, Patrick

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Persius

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.