Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Durant, William J.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pericles

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Washington, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Voltaire