Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Albert Einstein

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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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

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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

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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.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Washington, George

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward