Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sevareid, Eric

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Aristotle

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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

21.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

28.

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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Quayle, Dan

33.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Washington, George

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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.

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

Pike, Albert

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

42.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ruskin, John

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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