Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Milton, John

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

18.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

19.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

William Hazlitt

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Brown, Norman O.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Henry, Patrick

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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 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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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 opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Durant, William J.