Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, W. Clement

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

La Follette, Suzanne

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Washington, George

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.

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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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 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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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 poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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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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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

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Chomsky, Noam

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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