Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orr, Lord Boyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Washington, George

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

Bellin, Gita

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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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.

Euripides

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