Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

- Hanson, Virginia

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

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

Luther, Martin

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Blum, Leon

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

Stone, I. F.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herbert, Frank

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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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 is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

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

Dass, Ram

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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.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Horace

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pericles

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Aristotle