Quotes About Freedom

The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

Not a bird, not a plane, a girl - just without a grain of gravity.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Nu mai avea nimic de pierdut: bani, rude, reputaÈ›ie, toate disp?ruser? pentru mult? vreme, dac? nu pentru totdeauna. Dar împreun? cu ele îÈ™i mai luase zborul înc? ceva. M? refer la teama de ceea ce ar fi putut s?-i fac? oamenii.

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountainsideLet freedom ring.

Long may our land be brightWith freedom's holy light;Protect us by thy might,Great God, our King!

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrims' pride! From ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.

Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean... [John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.

None but the dead have free speech.