Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- La Follette, Suzanne

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ruskin, John

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Pericles

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Luther, Martin

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

11.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Epictetus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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

Voltaire

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

James, William

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

Dass, Ram

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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, 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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.