Motivational Quotes

Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Lumsden, Marshall

Best Quotes about Freedom

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

10.

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

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

18.

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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Durant, William J.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

34.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Epictetus

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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

43.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

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

Lenin

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

Buscaglia, Leo