Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pike, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mckern, Leo

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

10.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Hamilton, Edith

18.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

21.

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

Pericles

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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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Horace

28.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

32.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

47.

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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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.