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Freedom Quotes
"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."
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"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go."
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"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
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"Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist."
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"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
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"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
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"We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own."
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"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."
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"Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking."
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"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."
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"The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control."
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"God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you: "Who told you to kill one of my children?"And you tell him, "My leader."He will then ask you, "And are THEY your GOD?"
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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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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
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"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."
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"Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree."
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"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
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"I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."
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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you."
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"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."
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"The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she'd taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, 'I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel. It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. 'So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?"
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"There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free."
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"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."
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"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
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