Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Henry, Patrick

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bhagavad Gita

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, Frank

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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 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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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 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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

29.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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.

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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

43.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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