Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

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

Sevareid, Eric

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Scott, Hazel

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 time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Persius

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Epictetus

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Herbert, Frank

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell