Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Bellin, Gita

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Washington, George

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Pike, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel