Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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 greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Ruskin, John

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Pound, Ezra

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Persius

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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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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

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albert Einstein

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.