Quotes About Freedom

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

To get away from self is really the secret of all striving. And yet, most of us fail woefully. The more many of us try the more tightly we seem to be bound.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

We naturally associate democracy… with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

it is of the highest concernment that care should be taken of its conduct is a moderate statement. While the power of thought frees us from servile subjection to instinct, appetite, and routine, it also brings with it the occasion and possibility of error and mistake. In elevating us above the brute, it opens to us the possibility of failures to which the animal, limited to instinct, cannot sink.

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Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be

Nature hath no gaol, though she hath law.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Lord of yourself, uncumber'd with a wife.

I am as free as Nature first made man,Ere the base laws of servitude began,When wild in woods the noble savage ran.