Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Epictetus

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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

11.

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

Drummond, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Adams, John

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

30.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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