Quotes About Freedom

Ik heb wel eens zo'n ogenblik van steigerende, bevrijdende moed, maar dan -- als ik maar wist waar naartoe -- dan ging ik wel.

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art

The weak often have revolutionary sentiments; they think they would be well off if they were not ruled, and fail to perceive that they can rule neither themselves nor others.

Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.

Unfortunately, one can hardly think or say anything right anymore without grievously wounding the state, the gods or public opinion.

Nessuno è più schiavo di colui che si ritiene libero senza esserlo

Seit der Zeit bin ich oft draußen.

E s'abituava a disfarsi di tutto, per non aver più niente da perdere.

Era una sensazione piacevole quella di scivolare a volte da soli sul'acqua ed essere battellieri e piloti di se stessi

Non c'è mezzo più sicuro per sfuggire al mondo che l'arte, e non ci si lega a esso con maggior sicurezza che tramite l'arte.

She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.

Was her mother all right? Free? In

While I don't doubt your word, m'dear, I must point out that one person can never fully control another's actions.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage.

Ours is a non-creedal church—not because we have no beliefs, but because we will not be restrained in our beliefs.

Fly so high with my feet never leaving the ground.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

The weapons of hate and fear by which the collectivists have moved a generation of Americans to sell their freedom and integrity for security would never have worked had American roots in basic Judaic-Christian traditions not first been severed. God could not be replaced by Government as the source of all blessings until moral concepts were first blurred.

The Cold War is real war. It has already claimed more lives, enslaved more people, and cost more money than any "hot" war in history. Yet, most Americans refuse to admit that we are at war. That is why we are rapidly losing - why America has yet to win its first real victory in ... years of "cold" war.

When the Hungarians were condemned to die alone, the hopes and faith of millions of the world's most dedicated anti-communists died with them. Our staunchest allies, the enslaved people behind the Iron Curtain now believe they cannot expect help from America. If Americans lose their freedom, the beginning of the end came in Hungary.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe