Motivational Quotes

Freedom

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

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

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

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

Mckern, Leo

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

10.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

11.

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

Terence

12.

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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Epictetus

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

Pike, Albert

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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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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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.

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Horace

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lord Acton

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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