Motivational Quotes

Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

- Turner, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

William Hazlitt

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Sevareid, Eric

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Clinton, Bill

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

33.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

41.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Epictetus

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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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

48.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Burke, Edmund