Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Pound, Ezra

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Washington, George

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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

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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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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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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lawana Blackwell

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Quayle, Dan

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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