Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Drummond, William

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Malcolm X

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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.

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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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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

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Blum, Leon

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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