Quotes About Freedom

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?

If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off.

How can a good reputation be a hindrance? A good reputation naturally arises from doing good work. But if you try to cherish your reputation, if you try to preserve it, you lose the freedom and honesty necessary for further development.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

I don't know about you, but the reason I left my parents was because I wanted the freedom to sleep with girls. My sons have that – and they still have their mother to wash their clothes and cook their meals. No wonder they don't want to go!

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

Formality may seem stuffy but it provides fresh air and freedom

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Keep passing the open windows.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

TO THE FALLEN Sleep my sons, your duty done For Freedom's light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea Or in your bed of hallowed sod Until you hear at dawn the low, Clear reveille of God.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

Travel light, and death will never find you.