Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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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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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 only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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 sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Epictetus

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

George, David Lloyd

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Clinton, Bill

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.