Motivational Quotes

Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luther, Martin

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

12.

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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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 is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Madonna

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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We are free to yield to truth.