Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- La Follette, Suzanne

Best Quotes about Freedom

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

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

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

George, David Lloyd

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Mckern, Leo

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Albert Einstein

11.

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.

12.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

14.

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

Madonna

15.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

17.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

18.

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

21.

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

Persius

22.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

23.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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

26.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

28.

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

Pound, Ezra

29.

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

Stone, I. F.

30.

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

Quayle, Dan

31.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

32.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

33.

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

34.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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.