Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, I. F.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

10.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

12.

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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

19.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

20.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

23.

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

24.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

25.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

27.

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

Terence

28.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

29.

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

Madonna

30.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

31.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

Scott, Hazel

36.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

39.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

42.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

45.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

46.

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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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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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton