Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Sang Kyu Shin

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Dyer, Wayne

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Byron, Lord

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Herbert, Frank

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Blum, Leon

28.

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

Terence

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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

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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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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques