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

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

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

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Mckern, Leo

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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 are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Persius

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George