Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Epictetus

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

14.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Washington, George

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

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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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Scott, Hazel

32.

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

Blum, Leon

33.

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

34.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Norman O.

40.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

45.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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.