Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Orwell, George

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Epictetus

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Rushdie, Salman

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

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

Pike, Albert

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

13.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

14.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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

18.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

19.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

24.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

28.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

30.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

31.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

32.

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

33.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

35.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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