Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Drummond, William

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

Voltaire

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Milton, John

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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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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 prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Malcolm X

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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 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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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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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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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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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles