Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

- Ewer, W. N.

Best Quotes about Freedom

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Burke, Edmund

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Lumsden, Marshall

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Blum, Leon

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Voltaire

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

Silesius, Angelus

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton