Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

James, William

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Voltaire

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mandela, Nelson

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Dass, Ram

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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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