Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Luther, Martin

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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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

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Quayle, Dan

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Voltaire

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Terence

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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