Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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Best Quotes about Freedom

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

10.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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.

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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

17.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

19.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

21.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

25.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

27.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

30.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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 must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Lenin

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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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

45.

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

Durant, William J.

47.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

48.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

49.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik