Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Durant, William J.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

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

10.

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

11.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

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

Bellin, Gita

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stone, I. F.

16.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

17.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

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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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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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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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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

William Hazlitt

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

31.

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

Washington, George

33.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

Clinton, Bill

35.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

41.

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

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.