Motivational Quotes

Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

- Turner, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Epictetus

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blum, Leon

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Malcolm X

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Persius

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert