Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Terence

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Epictetus

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

12.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Pike, Albert

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Pound, Ezra

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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