Quotes About Freedom

I would no more renounce my Country than my Religion: I would leave posterity free; but would not deprive them of an attachment that I value myself upon: Nor yet my country, of a family that never gave it cause to be ashamed of it.

Just remember, though—your freedom means my freedom too.

may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within.  The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.  Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere changes of masters

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

Griff lowered his window as Turner drove through the gates of the federal prison camp that had been his home for the past five years. The area in which he'd been incarcerated was classified minimum security, but it was still prison.

stopped smoking

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

My mom would never ride an ATV,' he said. 'But you did.' 'Is that a good thing?' I asked. He traced my lips with his fingertip. 'Yes.' My body melted like a candy bar on the dashboard.

Life will work its magic if you let go of fear and live your life as an exclamation and not as an explanation.

Being alone is a matter of choice.

Strangely, though, in the midst of occupation and the utter failure of the Arab regimes, a sense of freedom was emerging: a notion that the Palestinians were suddenly free to think and act for themselves. In the weeks after the occupation, Bashir began to believe that his people would go back to their homeland only through the sweat and blood of Palestinian armed struggle. He was far from alone in this assessment.

to never again be led like sheep to the slaughter.

We need to tell each other stories of different ways you can live, different ways you can be; predicated not on how close you get to the life you were assumed or expected to have, but on the queer wanderings of a life you live.

Una opinión no te la pueden censurar, te la tienen que rebatir. Un intelectual sin sentido crítico no un intelectual. Es un adulador.

So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.

paraded around town in an elephant cage, an elephant who repeatedly pulled her stake and stole the lemonade

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I can do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I can do to not melt into a fit of giggles. [...] If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me. I don't know what to do.

And I'll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.

All summer they'd been pushing me towards my freedom and now I wanted to claim it

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire. And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.