Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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 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

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

James, William

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Ruskin, John

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

George, David Lloyd

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris