Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

10.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

33.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Pericles

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

Scott, Hazel

46.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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