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Freedom Quotes
"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms."
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"In the fight for freedom, the slightest of discord weakens the unity and invincibility of the mighty force at work."
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"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
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"Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows."
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"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
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"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. . . . Where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours. . . then surely it is braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel . . . than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"No man was born in chains; it is their fellow man who has put them in chains, and at any given time, every single man and woman has the absolute right to break free from those chains of any nature and of any form! It is not God who has put you in any sort of bondage! It is your fellow man who puts you in bondage in the name of God!"
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"The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break."
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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."
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"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
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"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
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"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."
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"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"INTO MY OWNOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew- Only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
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"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."
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