Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Freedom

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Herbert, Frank

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe