Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Freedom

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Washington, George

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Horace

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Dass, Ram

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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

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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

37.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Epictetus

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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 must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.