Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

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

Orwell, George

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

James, William

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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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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 is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Horace

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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 opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Epictetus

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Albert Einstein

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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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 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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Epictetus

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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 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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Terence

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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 means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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