Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Horace

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Scott, Hazel

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Pericles

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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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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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