Motivational Quotes

Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

- Turner, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Adams, John

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Luther, Martin

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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