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

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

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

Persius

11.

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

12.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

13.

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.

14.

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 most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

19.

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

Quayle, Dan

20.

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 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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

Terence

25.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

26.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

27.

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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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

33.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pericles

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

38.

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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

44.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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