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Quotes About Freedom

Republic. I like the sound of the word
~ John Wayne
My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
~ John Wayne
COWBOYS, just like the word says.
~ John Wayne
We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.
~ John Webster
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
~ John Webster
That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade.
~ John Wesley
Unfortunately, this original Christian vision of universal equality and freedom was soon obscured by Christians themselves. What happened, to cut a long story short, is that Christians almost from the beginning lacked the spiritual enlightenment and will of character to break with the existing social systems. Instead of reaffirming people's new freedom in Christ, they gradually fell back into an acceptance of the pagan world views of their own culture.
~ John Wijngaards
What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the fact of the old Republic; that the glorious word concealed the deed of horror; that the appearance of tradition and order cloaked the reality of corruption and chaos; that the call to liberty and freedom closed the minds, even of those who called, to the facts of privation, suppression, and sanctioned murder.
~ John Williams
So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm.
~ John Williams
Poverty with freedom from debt is great wealth. If
~ John Wortabet
We don't seem to be good at integrating novelties with our social lives, do we? The world of the etiquette book fell to pieces at the end of the last century, and there has been no code of manners to tell us how to deal with anything invented since. Not even rules for an individualist to break, which is itself another blow at freedom. Rather a pity, don't you think?
~ John Wyndham
You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?
~ John Wyndham
all one ?Under the sun ?United, helping, and having fun ?Love is the key ?It is strong for you and strong for me ?Love others and let them be ?Kindness and forgiveness will set you free
~ John Zakour
It's a tricky balancing act, finding that point between safety and danger where you can feel both secure and adventurous. I used to read books about fishing by people who had given up jobs and careers to show up every day at a trout stream. What made them do it? They realized, after years of fortifying the walls, of making life safe and secure, that they also needed what was on the other side.
~ John Zeaman
Mental illness is primarily an unconscious escape from this design, a form of passive resistance.
~ John Zerzan
a minute freed from the order of time has recreated in us ... the individual freed from the order of time,
~ John Zerzan
When you get old....you become invisible. It's just the truth. And yet it's freeing in a way.
~ Elizabeth Strout
La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad
~ Elizabeth Taylor
You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
He leaned down and nuzzled my ear. "Ah, my Lara. I took you from your sheltered den, kitten." "No." I straightened, wiping my face. "I left my den and chased you, remember?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Love shouldn't be safe
~ Elizabeth Webber