Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Blum, Leon

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.

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

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.

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.

10.

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

Washington, George

11.

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.

12.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

17.

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

Horace

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

30.

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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

46.

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

Maistre, Joseph De