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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ewer, W. N.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

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

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Lord Acton

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Drummond, William

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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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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.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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 Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Pound, Ezra

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.