Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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)

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Clinton, Bill

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

11.

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.

12.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Aristotle

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Pike, Albert

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Persius

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Pericles

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von