Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

Silesius, Angelus

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Drummond, William

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pericles

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Voltaire

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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