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

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

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

Adams, John

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

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Lenin

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Pericles

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

25.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

William Hazlitt

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Orwell, George

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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.

39.

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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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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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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 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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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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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.