Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Herbert, Frank

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.

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

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Terence

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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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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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 you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Pericles

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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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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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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.