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Management Quotes: Management Freedom

• I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap. Spanish Proverb
• Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. --Stephen Covey
• When I discover who I am, I'll be free. --Ralph Ellison
• Without self-knowledge, without understanding the workings of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave... --George Gurdjieff
• You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences. --Sheldon Kopp
• A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. --Albert Camus
• All good things are wild, and free. --Henry David Thoreau
• All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, unalienable rights. --John Adams
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. --Kipling
• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. --Clarence Darrow
• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. --Maria Montessori
• Every generation must wage a new war for freedom. --Conference for Progressive Political Action
• Freedom is not free. --From a wall near the Korean War Memorial 
• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? --Dante Alighieri
• Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. --Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. --Rollo May
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. --Mahatma Ghandi
• Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. --John G. Riefenbaker
• Freedom is the supreme good -- freedom from self-imposed limitation. --Elbert Hubbard
• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. --Bertrand Russell
• Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. --Bergen Evans
• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. --Rousseau
• God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." --Benjamin Franklin
• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. --Patrick Henry
• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. --Gandhi
• I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. --Nikos Kazantzakis
• If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John F. Kennedy
• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. --Edmund Burke
• If you cannot be free, be as free as you can. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. --Patrick Henry
• Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. --Robert Orben
• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. --Richard Bach
• In its truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! --Patrick Henry
• 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. --Mark Twain
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. --John F. Kennedy
• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. --Ignazio Silone
• Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. --Anonymous
• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. --Learned Hand, jurist
• Live free or die. --New Hampshire State Motto
• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
• I might despise what you say, but I will die to protect your right to say it-- Voltaire
• No man is free who is not master of himself. --Epictetus
• No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. --John Peter Zenger
• Only the educated are free. --Epicetus
• Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. --Henry David Thoreau
• Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. --Sir Winston Churchill
• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. --Kierkegaard
• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. --Stephen Covey 
• The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. --John Philpot Curran
• The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice. --Sovereign
• The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. --Frederick Chiluba
• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice--their choice. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. --Thomas Jefferson
• There's no freedom on earth for those who deny freedom to others. --Elbert Hubbard
• The revelation of thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. --Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
• The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. --Thucydides
• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. --Abraham Lincoln
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson
• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. --H. L. Mencken
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. --Thomas Paine
• To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day. --Anonymous
• We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. --Eric Hoffer
• What other liberty is worth having if we have not freedom and peace in our minds? --Henry David Thoreau
• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. --Robert Francis Kennedy
• You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. --Nancy Banks-Smith
• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. --Charles Austin Beard

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