Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Adams, John

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 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

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

12.

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

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

15.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

16.

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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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.

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Pericles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace

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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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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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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Drummond, William

30.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.