Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

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

Terence

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

Durant, William J.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Persius

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

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

Pound, Ezra

11.

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

Brown, Norman O.

12.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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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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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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

20.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

23.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

25.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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.

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

Voltaire

32.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

34.

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

Washington, George

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Dass, Ram

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

49.

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

Orwell, George

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus