Motivational Quotes

Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

- Turner, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Persius

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Terence

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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