Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

- Henry, Patrick

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thoreau, Henry David

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hill, Christopher

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

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Quayle, Dan

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Epictetus

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

William Hazlitt

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bellin, Gita

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Dass, Ram

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.