Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Adams, John

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

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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

12.

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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Washington, George

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

34.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Horace

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Macleish, Archibald

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.