Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

- Dass, Ram

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Washington, George

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Clinton, Bill

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Blum, Leon

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

Aristotle

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

Madonna