Motivational Quotes

Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Washington, George

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

Durant, William J.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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.

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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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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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, 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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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

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

Drummond, William

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

La Follette, Suzanne