Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Terence

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.

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

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Silesius, Angelus

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Drummond, William

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

22.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

25.

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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rushdie, Salman

36.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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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

41.

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

Horace

42.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd