Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Reagan, Ronald

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Epictetus

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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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

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

39.

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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean