Quotes About Freedom

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Often the first poem is the hardest, the one caught by a lifetime of being smaller than you are, trapped by your ideas of what art is, what an artist is, immobilized by the judgments of teachers whose names you may never again remember. How did we come to forget that anything true is beautiful? How young were we then?

I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.

Do not imprison Christ in you. Let Him live, let Him manifest Himself, let Him find vent through you.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

If with me you'd fondly stray.Over the hills and far away.

you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...

some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh...

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

Now, I'd like to ask people in the room, please raise your hand if you have not broken a law, any law, in the past month... That's the kind of society I want to build. I want to guarantee — with physics and mathematics, not with laws — that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

For I belong to the sunlight, This I would not barter for any kingdom.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.