Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Freedom

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bhagavad Gita

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Epictetus

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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