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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Pericles

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry, Patrick

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

11.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

14.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Voltaire

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Burke, Edmund

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Herbert, Frank

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

37.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Milton, John

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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

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton