Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Milton, John

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Blount, Wilton M.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

Terence

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mckern, Leo

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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