Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Herbert, Frank

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dass, Ram

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Voltaire

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blum, Leon

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

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Drummond, William

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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.

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Sieyes, Abbe

31.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

James, William

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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