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

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.

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

Scott, Hazel

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Clinton, Bill

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Stone, I. F.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

10.

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

11.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Pericles

13.

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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Voltaire

18.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Washington, George

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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.

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 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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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

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

Ewer, W. N.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

38.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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.

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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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Voltaire

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.