Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Terence

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Drummond, William

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.