Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

La Follette, Suzanne

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Luther, Martin

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Washington, George

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Adams, John

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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 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.

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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