Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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.

12.

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

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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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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 opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Sevareid, Eric

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Quayle, Dan

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Washington, George

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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

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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.

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

James, William