Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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.

17.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

25.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Epictetus

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

Washington, George

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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 is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

33.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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 especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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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.

39.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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 primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.