Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

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

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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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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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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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Washington, George

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Epictetus

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Dass, Ram

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

William Hazlitt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Epictetus

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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