Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Dyer, Wayne

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Milton, John

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Patricia Sampson