Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orr, Lord Boyd

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pericles

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith