Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

James, William

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

Dass, Ram

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

10.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

11.

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.

12.

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

Epictetus

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

Reagan, Ronald

14.

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

Pericles

15.

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

Herbert, Frank

16.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

17.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

18.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

19.

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

20.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

25.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

26.

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Voltaire

30.

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.

31.

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

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

33.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

35.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

37.

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

38.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

40.

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

Mckern, Leo

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

Orwell, George

45.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

50.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)