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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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

Stone, I. F.

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

Washington, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Terence

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Persius

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Durant, William J.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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