Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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.

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.

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.

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

Stone, I. F.

11.

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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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Ewer, W. N.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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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

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Pericles

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John