Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Chomsky, Noam

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott, Hazel

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Persius

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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

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Epictetus

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.