Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pike, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Macleish, Archibald

10.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

11.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Lenin

14.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

15.

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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

18.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

Rushdie, Salman

20.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

21.

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.

22.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

28.

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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

31.

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

Drummond, William

32.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

35.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

42.

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

Sevareid, Eric

44.

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.

45.

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

Mandela, Nelson

46.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Covey, Stephen R.