Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ruskin, John

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

Malcolm X

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Epictetus

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Milton, John

25.

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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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

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pericles

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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