Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

William Hazlitt

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Aristotle

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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