Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Adams, John

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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.

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

32.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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.

38.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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