Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Albert Einstein

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

Mandela, Nelson

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

10.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

James, William

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Persius

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

24.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

32.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

33.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

35.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.