Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Stone, I. F.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Drummond, William

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Herbert, Frank

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

10.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Washington, George

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

36.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

39.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Epictetus

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson