Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hill, Christopher

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dass, Ram

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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

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

Terence

15.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

20.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

21.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Orwell, George

25.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

28.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

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

30.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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

Bhagavad Gita

36.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

40.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

42.

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

45.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

46.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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