Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Kennedy, Robert 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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Drummond, William

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Pericles

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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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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich