Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Sang Kyu Shin

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott, Hazel

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

10.

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

11.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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.

13.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Ewer, W. N.

18.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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.

26.

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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Drummond, William

35.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

47.

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

Durant, William J.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.