Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Clinton, Bill

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Herbert, Frank

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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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.

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

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

Orwell, George

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert